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Mayor of Narvik Makes His Escape
HE 'DOOTS' THOSE FIRES
"You and I have much in common,” a Scottish Unitarian minister told officials of the Fire Brigades Union.
"We both try to save people from fires but yours are real, and I am afraid there are the gravest 'doots' about mine!"
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COLONEL O. BROCH, a member of the Norwegian Military Mission in London, related recently that he received a letter from his son, Mr. Theodor Broch, the former Mayor of Narvik.
The letter was postmarked Chicago. Mr. Broch had reached the Middle West in the course of a lecture tour. He is describing to American audiences his first-hand experience of the battle for the strategic iron ore port and his own dramatic escape from Narvik after he had been sentenced to death by General Eduard Dietl.
Mr. Broch crossed into Sweden three-years-old daughter in Nor- and travelled to the U.S.A. via way. But they have since suc- Russia and Japan-three-quar- ceeded in escaping. ters of the way round the globe. Around The World The Mayor of Narvik obliged to leave his wife
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Condemned To Death
During the first German occupa- tion of Narvik the mayor made an unsuccessful attempt to seize control of the telephone and telegraph system. He was con- demned to face a firing squad, but was reprieved through the intercession of the town council.
He stayed at his post and had the satisfaction of welcoming the Allied expeditionary force. When the evacuation of Narvik follow- ed. Mr. Broch filed down the coast and set to work reorganis-
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The mayor was caught the Nazis in Harstad. Knowing that there would be no second reprieve, he made. a dash for freedom and
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