RISING UNREST

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 August 1943, Page 4

RISING UNREST

REPORTED IN DENMARK REVOLT AGAINST NAZI TERRORISM. WIDESPREAD SABOTAGE. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) LONDON, August 21. King Christian has authorised the Danish Government and Parliament to appeal to the nation to check sabotage, demonstrations and attempts to bring to a standstill the railway and public utilities, which are threatening the food supplies of the community. Denmark's simmering unrest was manifested in clashes between Danes and Germans, which were the culmination of a week of sabotage in Danish factories working for the Germans, says Reuter’s Stockholm correspondent. Danes killed 16 Germans on Fyen Island, to which Danish police have been sent. Bombs have been thrown at German trains passing through Denmark. A state of emergency has been declared at Svendborg, Odense and several other towns. An eleventh-hour attempt to achieve a compromise is being made under threat of a general strike if me German demands are not withdrawn.

King Christian is expected to meet Dr. Werner Best, the German Minister, today to discuss the wave of sabotage. German extremists are demanding tne withdrawal of Dr. Best and his replacement by General Hannecken, the German commander-in-chief in Denmark, who is known for fiis advocacy of terrorism as practised in Norway. Authentic details of the sabotage and of the strike which led to the present crisis show that more than 60 Danish factories were sabotaged in one week, and that a general strike at Esbjerg lasted from August 7 to 12. All factories, municipal offices, shops, banks, scnools and newspapers closed down. the police helping the strikers.