GESTAPO TERRORISTS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 September 1942, Page 3

GESTAPO TERRORISTS

THIRTY KILLED IN RAID ON OSLO BOMB CRASHES THROUGH TO CELLAR. GERMANS TRYING TO HIDE FACTS. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) LONDON, September 28. In I lie raid on Oslo on Friday Hie .Mosquitoes’ bombs killed 30 Gestapo officials, 10 of whom died in Ihe “cellar . of torture” beneath Hie Gestapo building in Victoria Terrace, where political prisoners were “cross-examined,” says the Stockholm correspondent of the “Daily Express.”

A bomb crashed through into the cellar before exploding and wiped the officials out. They included ObcrsturmFuehrer Bernard!. whose cruelty has made his name infamous throughout Norway. He commanded the expedition which savagely punished the Lofoten Islanders after the first British commando raid in 1941. Several German officials were also killed, including the first aide-de 7 camp to the German police chief in Oslo, General Rediess. High Storm Trooper officials are still buried under the ruins.

The Germans are trying to hide the effects of the raid. The official list of casualties gives only seven killed and 67 injured.

REFUSING TO FIGHT QUISLINGS HOLD PROTEST MEETINGS. MANY ALREADY ARRESTED. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, September 27. A further step toward the disintegration of the Quisling party, the National Samling, was made in Norway this weekend. Appealing against being conscripted for service on the eastern front, members of the party have been holding protest meetings throughout the country, and as a result 50 have already been arrested and a further 273 of the Hirdmen have been interned.