NAZIS IN NORWAY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 January 1941, Page 9

NAZIS IN NORWAY

MEETING WITH STUBBORN RESISTANCE

REJECTION OF QUISLING

REGIME

FOOD TROUBLES IN BELGIUM

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright ) LONDON. January IL

The Gorman invaders of Norway j and Belgium are meeting with grow- . ing resistance in their attempt to con- ! vert those peoples to the new order. j From a reliable Swedish source! comes news that western Norway flatly refuses to accept directions from! Major Quisling and his regime, and Quisling's newspaper has had to admit that the position there is move than ' serious: in fact, probably hopeless, i Newspapers in that part of Norway are 1 reported as steadfastly refusing to pub- ; lish anything supplied by the Propa- j ganda Minister.

Ihe Germans in Norway are finding ‘ great difficulty in enforcing the ban! on the use of King Haakon's name ‘ and picture on merchandise. For ex- I ample, a popular bran-! of sardines is i called "King of Norway." and on every • tin there is the King's picture. A practical solution would be to ! dump the whole lot into the sea. but. I as one Swedish newspaper points out I even Quislingites must eat. So a strip j of paper is pasted over the King’s pj r ’ I lure and the sardines rendered innccu-1 ous from the propaganda point of view. Workers in the sardine cannery meet the challenge to their loyalty by fixing the strip of paper in such a way that it is easy to lift and reveal the King's picture.

In Belgium, food troubles are increasing. Under the pretext of ensuring that no one has more than his rightful share the Germans have appointed 3500 officials whose object is to prosecute wherever they can so that the Courts may order the confiscation of stocks of food which people may have accumulated through difficult times. The number of food prosecutions in Belgium was 70.000 in November alone, involving the seizure of 250 tons of commodities.