DANISH NAVY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 August 1943, Page 3

DANISH NAVY

ABOUT NINE SHIPS ESCAPE TO SWEDEN OTHERS SCUTTLED IN PORT REPORTED CLASH IN COPENHAGEN YARDS. FEROCIOUS NAZI REPRESSION & THREATS. LONDON, August 29. A number of Danish warships, believed to be about nine, are reported to have slipped out of port and reached Sweden, carrying civ- • ilians as well as officers and others. Other ships of the Danish Navy, numbering 45, were scuttled.

A clash is reported between German and Danish troops at the Copenhagen naval yards when the Germans arrived to take over the warships. The Danish Navy comprised a number of useful destroyers, submarines, torpedoboats and other coast defence craft. It is reported that there have been serious disorders in Copenhagen and that there is a general strike in the country. King Christian is confined to a castle and members of the Government have been interned.

Strong Nazi reprisals are threatened in Denmark “against acts of sabotage and disorder.” The latest broadcast from the Nazicontrolled Danish radio states that German patience is now exhausted. German troops have been ordered to ruthlessly enforce the state of emergency declared earlier today. The state* of emergency prohibits gatherings of more than five pdbple in the street; entertainments must be closed down at dusk; traffic is allowed in the streets only in daylight, strikes are prohibited and anyone who provokes strikes will be punished by death.