ALLEGED SPYING
NORWEGIANS EXECUTED BY NAZIS STORY OF SECRET VISIT TO ENGLAND. AGREEMENT TO TRANSMIT INFORMATION. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) ’ (Received This Day, 11.0 a.m.) LONDON. August 11. The Germans executed three Norwegians on a charge of establishing an espionage organisation in Norway, for the transmission of information to Britain, reports a Norwegian Telegraph Agency. The men were condemned to death by court-martial on. August 1, the day on which the German Commissar declared a state of emergency and placed Norway completely in the hands of the German military authorities, the Gestapo and the S.S. According to the German-controlled Oslo radio, the men travelled secretly to England, where they were persuaded to co-operate in the establishment of a spying organisation in Norway directed against the German Army. The men returned to Norway with a wireless transmitter and also a trunk containing revolvers and ammunition.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 August 1941, Page 5
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143ALLEGED SPYING Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 August 1941, Page 5
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