SWEDEN SHOCKED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 December 1943, Page 4

SWEDEN SHOCKED

AT GERMAN REJECTION OF PROTEST AGAINST DEPORTATIONS FROM NORWAY SOME DEMANDS FOR “CONCRETE • MEASURES” (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.45 a.m.) " LONDON, December 10. The German decision to ignore the Swedish Government’s protests against the deportation of Oslo University students has shocked Sweden, says the British United Press Stockholm correspondent. The “Dagens Nyheter,” in demanding the closure of Swedish territorial waters to German merchant shipping, criticised the Government for failing to back up its protest with concrete measures. The newspaper nevertheless expresses the opinion that a stoppage of iron ore exports to Germany at present is impracticable, as Sweden is bound by contract until the end of 1944,” after which iron ore exports are likely to cease anyway. Another newspaper carries a cartoon showing a huge clenched fist halting a train laden with goods for Germany; captioned: “This sort of protest will .be understood.” Trade talks between Sweden and Germany will be resumed in Stockholm tomorrow under these unfavourable conditions. The British United Press says that about 600 students have been deported to Germany. Nearly 200 other Norwegians, including 20 professors and a number of policemen, have also been deported. The students left for Germany under conditions of the greatest secrecy. Armed police guards accompanied the special train which took them from a concentration camp at Strafern to Oslo, where they were hurried aboard ship at the point of the bayonet. So seriously does the Nazi Governor of Norway, Terboven, fear strikes and demonstrations in protest against the deportations that he forbids the Norwegian Press to mention that the first contingent has already left.