DESPERATE WORK

Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 March 1943, Page 3

DESPERATE WORK

AGAINST THE GERMANS IN NORWAY ADVENTURES OF LONDON DANCER GRIM STORY' OF NAZI ATROCITIES. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, March 24. After three years of desperate work as a saboteur' leader and assisting Norwegians to escape from their country, a 22-year-old London dancer, Miss Helen Dallas, has arrived at Stockholm after a narrow escape from the Germans in Norway. Reporting this, the Stockholm correspondent of the “Daily Mail” says that few of the 9000 Norwegians who escaped since the occupation have a more thrilling story than hers. She is legally a Norwegian, because she escaped internment by paying a young Norwegian £25 to marry her. She saw her husband twice —on the day of the marriage and again early this month when she paid another £25 for a divorce. She was’ one of the key operatives in a nation-wide organisation for arranging escapes and for sabotage, and the dissemination of Allied propaganda, and many Norwegians who are serving with the Allied forces owe their freedom to her. The Germans caught her girl friend and extracted one finger nail each day till none ,were left, and several of her men associates had every nail and tooth extracted in this manner. Miss Dallas consented to escape only when friends who knew that a German net was closing round her threatened to take her to the frontier by force. “The only thing encouraging us in Norway was the 8.8. C. news, which I helped to distribute,” said Miss Dallas.