LOFOTEN RAID
REPRISALS ON POPULACE HOMES OF HELPERS BURNT. PATRIOTS KEEN TO SERVE COUNTRY. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 9.15 a.m.) LONDON, March 7. The Svolvor Terboven has decreed that all properly belonging to the Lofoten families who voluntarily followed Britons or helped during the raid, shall be burnt and the helpers arrested. One Norwegian already has been shot for recalcitrance. The population has been fined £5OOO and the municipality ordered to maintain the families of those who have gone to England as prisoners. The King may receive the Norwegian patriots, whose registration for some form of service will begin immediately. AU are described as keen as mustard. Most of the younger men want to join the R.A.F. and return to Norway and bomb the Germans. Many of the arrivals, who are fishermen and sailors, are likely to join the Norwegian vessels serving the British merchant navy. The women are as anxious as the men Io serve the Allied cause.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 March 1941, Page 5
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161LOFOTEN RAID Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 March 1941, Page 5
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