NAZI TYRANTS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 April 1943, Page 3

NAZI TYRANTS

+ TACITLY DEFIED BY PEOPLE OF NORWAY OPENING OF FOURTH YEAR OF OCCUPATION. SENTIMENT IN SWEDEN AND DENMARK. (Bv Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) LONDON, April 9. Quisling police, specially armed by Terboven, the Gauleiter in Norway, patrolled the empty streets of towns and villages as the fourth year of the German occupation opened. A state ot extreme emergency was ordered throughout Norway, but the Norwegians repeated their tactics of 1941 and 1942, shutting themselves m thenhouses as a passive gesture of defiance The day passed quietly but resentment against the occupation is still growing because of the Germans expanding control of the country’s economy and because 157 Norwegians have been executed and thousands thrown into concentration camps and prisons. “The Times” Stockholm correspondent says: “The third anniversary of the German invasion of Norway, Sweden made no secret of her sympathy for Norway. The Bishop of Stockholm spoke at a memorial service in Stockholm Cathedral for Norway's dead. Those present included the Foreign Minister, Mr. Gunther, and high officials throughout Sweden were included in one attended by 9000 Norwegian refugees. Newspaper editorials emphasised Norway’s shining example and Germany’s complete failure to impose her new order. Denmark’s newspapers, which hitherto have been forbidden to mention anniversaries of occupation, freely mentioned the country s defeat, recalling the recent general election as proof of the nation’s adherence to the democratic spirit. Many newspapers declared that the country was waiting for peace and for the return of freedom. The newspapers, moreover, freely expressed sympathy with Noiway s fate. _