CRISIS REACHED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 August 1943, Page 4

CRISIS REACHED

DENMARK AND GERMANY A WAVE OF SABOTAGE. NORWAY SEETHING WITH UNREST. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.45 p.m.) LONDON, August 19. German-Danish relations have reached. a crisis as the result of a wave of sabotage sweeping Denmark and the tacit admission by the Quisling Prime Minister, Scavenius, that he is no longer able to control the situation, the British United Press Stockholm correspondent says. Scavenius apparently realised that he had come to the end of his tether and tried to resign but the German Minister, Werner Best, refused his resignation. The Germans have always allowed King Christian and the parliament technically to rule the country but the end of this concession is possible unless the situation is cleared up within a few days. The Germans demanded that workmen discovered to be engaged in sabotage should be sent to prisons in Germany but even Scavenius declined to do this. In the meantime a meeting of all the parliamentary groups will be held in Copenhagen tomorrow, at which important decisions may be taken. Norway simultaneously is seething with renewed unrest. The whole country is deeply shocked as a result of the German execution of the Police Chief, Gunnar Eilifsen. The Germans now threaten to shoot all the senior police officers who refuse to obey orders. German detachments, in full kit, have been parading through Oslo.