HEROIC PEOPLE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 January 1941, Page 7

HEROIC PEOPLE

■FIGHTING WITHOUT WEAPONS NORWAY TODAY. s ' *’! STANDING? TOGETHER IN FACE OF Al.I. ODDS. The story of Norway today is the > story of a heroic people fighting without weapons against an enemy domination of the conn try through armed force and holding all the key positions in the government. In the face of these odds the Norwegians are carrying on the fight systematically and with discipline undeterred by punishment or I persuasion, turning a deaf ear to noisy . i propaganda, preparing only for the day t . when the fight shall be won and the (■ invader pushed back into the sea. Since a police ban was announced ,on December 7 which forbade the wearing of coins and emblems of King I Hatikon's head, the Norwegians have • found a new way to show their loyalty. ' . An outbreak of paperclips has mysteri-’j ' ousiy occurred in Oslo, worn in the ’ buttonhole, the hat or the lapel. Every-1 > body knows the meaning of this inno-! , cent decoration— “Hold together"—a i ’] subtlety so much resented by the au-! . I thurifies that wholesale arrests of: J paperclip owners has been threatened, j ("Social Demokralen." December 7.1 ,| 1940>. j J A DANGEROUS MOOD. j Humour is a dangerous weapon to | J use against, the Prussian, and it has I I) been widely used in Norway. But as.' i months have passed the humour has j I become more bitter with the shame i | and anger which. Norwegians feel i i against Quisling with his efforts to | ■ serve German) and his "Government” I part) which ha ■ none of the people behind it. Norwegian opposition is formidable! and successful. The ' Helsmgen Sami- ! i ma 1 ." 'Finland). November 2(1. reports j I that “In large towns perpetual attempts! ! are made io murder members of the: i National Sanding. The authorities arc t discovering to their increasing anger■ I that members' property is being syste- ; ' matically destroyed. During the black- i .■ out Quislingites in Oslo and other , • places go in terror of their lives." ■ At Aalesund the entire population is ! ; forbidden to go out after dark as a; ■ punishment for demonstrating at a 'meeting where the local police remain-’ ed passive In si)i<e of arrests imprisonments i ’and the new concent! ion comps the demon itr.dn.iis I’lintmtie while large ‘scale acts «»f *,.i> ti:u;e arc planned and ’ carried out LANDSLIDES. On November "ti a series of well-dir-ected landslide., ant hundred <■! t- ns . >f earth and rocks ~n the highf-i.ul and j main radway line between Osh- and, ; Bergei; The line was wrecked in ten i place The German authorities hurriedly proclaiming martial lav in the district, made wlmhnale arrests Hard-. I*, less hurriedly came a statement i from Dr. G-.-ebbe!- Autumn -u.rtiif • . cause earth tremors and special : na .r-.irr.' have be taken to ;. '>■•! ; '.he r.oI v, a)■ ■ ’ ('.ei a. ar. t.<■ t: t > i I Francs. December U> HoWewr a- the i Swedish Pre- - f N . w’oer ie- • i mark “ w.; . au :tie.ven.er: ■■■■rm i which caused ah the limd-hdiv '■■ hap- : !j- t i simult it ■>■;■■ \ and jus* ■he re ; '.he*. c-Hd came '.lie gi-. ate.-l due I- e ;',■; hail- ’hr 1.1- - w d ■ tile : .aid- . .-l-.de -.iga ' C'Cr- 'nm the S'w ■••■•■.'i:m i Pre; - of 1 leccmbvr < ■■•<■■■. ■ G ebbels' ’..■■. * ’>:> Ni ■:■•*■. ay; "Dr. Go ■>■■ ha- -s w. '■ dr>- -dd !;,■ ha - b-dn f. I ■abi ■■ 1.. a ■ I - the :-a "■' e ;’i" . i : r ■«’> ’ ■ ; .. . •,.. . •? ( * • ; • J : but. ’..ltd- hrF: I