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Curtailment Of Liberty In Norway
HAVING BROKEN into Norway mainly by bri- bery and corruption, threats, demoralisation and ruse, the Germans quickly set about stamping out any attempts to preserve Norway's freedom and in- dependence.
King Haakon was bombed from town to town through his country. The Norwegian people under German occupation, faced with economic ruin as a result of Germany's act, are forced to labour for their invaders. According to reports from Sweden they have to build fortifications and air bases and repair bombed aerodromes for the Germans. liberties are being steadily curtailed.
and charcoal were being
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FORCED LABOUR FOR THE NAZIS Unemployment increases as fac-
has
BRITISH TROOPS' HEROISM
The last stand of a Brit- ish regiment at the little harbour town of St. Val- ery-en-Caux was describ- ed in London by a French liaison officer.
Completely surrounded by the enemy, they fought all night at barricades in the midst of the blazing town after driving the enemy back at the point of the bayonet. I found the French of- ficer in hospital, gaunt-faced and: with hair now streaked with. grey. His praise for the British troops was beyond words.
It all happened suddenly (he said). The men had fought their way back magnificently right to the coast, and at last we reached St. Valery. British and French troops were there. French and British generals gathered at 2 conference. The next day I was asked to pass certain instructions. to the French artillery. The town was so packed with cars and peo- ple I had to break through doors and pass through houses to reach the point. On the way back a German aeroplane circled over the town three times making ob- servation. Then it all began.
As I walked back to British headquarters heavy shelling start- ed. We helped to free some mules from their harness, then a
and I was wounded in the leg.
shell burst on a house beside me. This was bandaged, and I went An hour later there was on. heavy bombing and many parts of the town began to blaze fierce- ly. Then to my surprise I heard heavy machine-gun fire, and British troops began to rush up the streets with fixed bayonets. beginning to The Germans were come into the town. The battle became terrific, with fierce ma- ·
chine-gun and shell fire among the blazing buildings. The Ger mans were on the west cliff and the west side of the harbour.
joined some Englishmen on the east side of the harbour entrance and fired at the Germans only a few hundred yards away. Then things suddenly quietened down, Germans from and I understand that the British had driven the the west cliff. BRITISH WERE MAGNIFICENT As night fell the battle began The British were manned the
beach was
The German invasion deprived serve as food-stuffs or can be re- at a blow of her im-fined for that purpose has been Norway portant sources of income such as forbidden, as has the use of linseed her shipping and whaling indus-oil for the manufacture of soap. tries. Export markets from which she could earn free exchange' are cut off, and where her exports can be diverted to Germany she has tories shut down for lack of raw again.
or markets, Districts magnificent. They to take-in-exchange what Ger-materials many is able and chooses to send dependent on the whaling or tim-barricades set up in the streets. her. This is certainly not the oils ber industries, such as Vestfold First the enemy shelled and then Norway needs, for Germany has and Ostfold are particularly badly machine-gunned. I saw one ser- not enough for herself, nor the hit, and unemployment figures geant making his men laugh and wool or cotton or textiles. Petrol have risen in Osla The Norwegian leading them in songs as they
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took cover.against the shelling in restrictions have already ended Unemployment all private motor traffic. (Oslo ceased to operate and is not ex-the light of the flaming buildings. message to Allehanda, Stockholm, pected to revive ("Hufvudstads-The moment the shelling stopped quoted in "Manchester Guardian" bladet," May 10). Norwegian they were at the barricades.
Next morning we went off to 30.4.1940.) The German DN.B. labour is forced to build or repair
the beach under heavy machine-
The nearest gun fire.
boats announced on June 5 that "alling aerodromes for the invaders.
THE NAZI GRIP stations" for wood
some were at Veuls les Roses, first German acts miles away. One of the
The for motor vehicles opened in Oslo and the vicinity, after the invasion was to impose swept by machine-guns. Every Transport difficulties which in-on the Norwegians a puppet Gov few yards was a dead or wound- Majured man We ran and hid in flicted severe local shortages of ernment of the traitor,
He was soon throwa crannies at the cliff foot. At one coal on Germany, operate also Quisling. against the supplying of Norway, aside, and now a German commis-point a shell had brought down a Norwegian farmers are to get sar dominates Norwegian ad- heap of chalk. Here were lying offal for fodder and ersatz fodder|ministration, Terboven, the may men killed and wounded in made of cellulose according to a Gauleiter of the Essen district in climbing the obstacle. Along this Stockholm report ("The Times," in the Ruhr, while the German beach I saw another example of April 27, 1940). It has been Minister in Copenhagen,
supreme coolness by the British. estimated that 25% of the cattle Renthe-Finck, has been appointed To make more rapid progress a herds will have to be slaughtered Hitler's special plenipotentiary, whole platoon walked along the in order to save fodder and that Terboven has installed himself in beach in a widely spaced not more than half will long be the King's
palace at side by side instead of in file- preserved ("Neue Zuercher Zei- Bygdo, outside Oslo. The pride of just as if they were on parade. I the boats. One was tung"). All metals except iron Oslo, the million pound city liall, reached and steel have been rationed. has been turned into a barracks aground but overloaded. I stripped for German troops ("Daily Ex-my clothes. and swam to a ECONOMIC RUIN-
press," 18.4.1940, dispatch_from small trawler.- The violent dislocation in Nor-lo. E. E. Hoelass from Oslo via way's national economy soon pro- New York). duced food shortages. Municipall- ties were soon in economic diff-
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Newspapers are ing Norwegian newspaper, "Aften- quarters of her requirements of forbidden to publish news from posten." grain for bread, totalling about Allied. news agencies or other NORWAY MAY NOT KEEP 400,000 tons a year. Great stocks sources (Moscow wireless, May |have, already been removed to May 26).
Germany. Among the first mea According to reports in Stock-to celebrate the Norweglah sures taken by the German in-holm ("The Times," 28.5.1940), National Day, May 17, and no flags vaders was the intensification of 1,000 special Gestapo, agents, In-were allowed to be hoisted, or the rationing of bread, flour, rice, cluding 300 women, have arrived Norwegian emblems to be worn. peas, coffee and sugar. Norway's in Oslo. At Moss, a town on Oslo Terboven has announced that margarine industry is being forced Fjord the Germans--placarded Norwegians who "insult" other to close down for luck of whale Jewish shops, and the wireless Norwegians who has friendly oil and, fats from overseas. It receivers of Jewish families in relations with their invaders, will has been decreed that all oll and Oslo were confiscated. 'There are be severely punished. Norwegians petrol are to be reserved for the reports of the deaths of well-who attempt to Join Norwegian needs of agriculture and industrial known Oslo personalities. In forces fighting for independence purposes and for transport, prin- some areng curlew has been im- against Germany will be dealt with courts martial cipally of food supplice and Ger-posed and Norwegians are forbid-by German man troops. The use for mechaniden to go out of doors after 10]("Neue Züercher Zeitung," 3.6- cal purposes of fats which can p.m. According to reports from11940.)