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IN SILENT SORROW AND GRIM DETER- MINATION THE NORWEGIAN PEOPLE CELE- BRATED THEIR INDEPENDENCE DAY.
There were no demonstrations except that a clandestine newspaper, called "We Want to Have a Country Again," has appeared and enjoys an enor- mous circulation throughout the country. The newspaper denounces all Quisling leaders, charging them with spying and treason.
The German and Quisling appeasement" for the Norwegians and all as far
the as
Germans forbidden authorities have
and out. Quislingites are concerned. They manifestations, indoors
forbidden to half-staff have not lost their courage, their it was bags, wear black arm-bands or will to resist or their hope that. King Huukon put in his play or sing the national anthem as
new seventeenth
**
in public. The hundreds of yards message, of black crepe reported sold dur- of May will come when we in ing recent days to Oslo patriots free Norway will hear again the happy voices of the children remained unused,
"Verboten" is an old German cekbrating our honoured national word that the Germans and Quis- day." lings are using in Norway exten- sively and without much success.
After thirteen months of occupation and seven months of Quisling's administration the authorities have not yet succeeded in "forbidding" the Norwegians to oppose their
oppressors, whe- ther German or Norwegian,
Norwegian Opposition
The "Stockholm
Tidningen"
in
one of the few more or less openly pro-German newspapers Sweden
'DEAD' V.C.
TURNS UP
ALIVE
to-day published an There is rejoicing in the
after a two-
article by one of its correspondents who has returned months' stay
Herts tiny
B.B.C. ORGAN BOMBED
The B.B.C.'s famous theatre organ was destroyed when the interior of St. George's
Holl
during
was
night raid.
wrecked
о
London
It may not have largest
been the
organ in the world, for modern
but
re-
sources and luxurious equipment it had no rival.
THINKS WAR MAY DIE SLOW DEATH
"The war seems of
village near Ware.
in Norway, From Hunsdon,
other reports The village's "own V.C.,' this, us from all from Norway, one gets an in- pression of complete astonishment Captain
>>
likely to die
there a slow death instead of being a sudden collapse by the enemy," thinks Mr. Charles E. O Eric Charles Carter, astrologer, of London,
The prophecy was read at the over the fact that the Nazi party. Twelves Wilson, reported | Astrologers Convention at Har-
rogate.
which
for
months seven
has
reigned supreme in Norway and killed, later found to be a has in its hands the complete administration. and repressive prisoner of war in Somali machinery backed by German land, is free, bayonets, has not
son,
wife
succeeded in His mother, Mrs. Evelyn Wil- subjugat ng or even conciliating!
C. C. of the Rev. about 99 per cent. of the Nor-Wilson, who is the vicar at Huns- from wegian population,
don, received a telegram
The Swedish
reporter recalla her son. "Free again and fit," it that Major Vidkun Quisling had said.
foreign pre69,
expressed to the
But
seems Mrs. Wilson said: "It the wish that they coase meddi- that when our
troops reached Ing in Norwegian policies.
Asmara during the advance in the he says. referring to the In East they found my boy in pri numerable ways the Norwegians son there, and he is now wall- have discovered to demonstrate ing instructions out in the East. their feelinga, "everything has with our troops."
a
"We shall be disappointed if
dues not
experience Hitler serious defeat," Mr. Carter says.
Momentous events in May were also forecast by Mr. Carter:
"May 26 is a menacing day for month Axis. This end of the brings a likelihood of revolution- ary movements in Germany. They will be suppressed."
LEFT HIS ROWING- BOAT "MOBILE"
a political meaning in Norway--
It was in October last year buttonholes, matches, flags,
that Captain Wilson was "post- V.C. ration cards and tobacco seals."
humously" awarded the The Norwegians, says the
wounds in In spite of severe
For leaving a rowing-boat un- Swedish correspondent, read their his shoulder and eye, and although attended and not immobilised. newspapers in reverse. "What is he was suffering from malaria, in the Thames, Charles Lewis, presented under banner headlines he kept a key machine-gun post- is considered
and
unimportant
in action for four days, repair aged 60, of Lavender-garden, Bat- vice versa," he writes, "The ing the guns himself and Bring terse, was fined. 10s. at Lam-
beth. Norwegian radlo his own gun to the last;
Norwegian."
'new order'
It was stated that Lewis usual- station would be grateful if it For four days the enemy bat-
boat at night. near had half as many listeners as the tered his post with artillery only ly left his forbidden London broadcasts in 700 yards away. They blew two Lambeth Pier, with sculls secure- of his guns to pieces and he was ly. locked, but on this occasion The correspondent adds that in overwhelmed by weight of num- could not reach the pier. He simp-
Norwegian Northern
ly tucked the sculls under the bers.
Three days after the report of seats of the boat and went on in set of the local police station. his death. new's came through: a, jaunch, leaving his boat off the
Albert Embankment, that he was a prisoner of wat.
a
London was listened to on
town the
Despite arrests and repres slon, the opposition still runs four or five illegal newspapers "one of which was discovered to be with Incredible boldness In the anteroom of An Osto Ministry."
Quisling Party Is Smail In German circles the Quisling at is membership party
put around 30,000: An important: Quislingite put it at 40,000, just over 1 per cent. of the Norwegian
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ADMIRALS WILL BE BARGEES
ADMIRALS AND other naval men, now retired, may soon sail again as bargees on Britain's inland waterways.
The correspondent says that at the beginning the greatest · num; ber of Quislingites was recorded But even among rich peasants. how they are beginning to aban- don the "leader. Geographically the greatest number of members
The Minister of Transport, bargee's job for the duration. should to-day be in the Gud- brands Valley, while the greatest Lieut.-Colonel Moore-Brabazon, 1 "Most of our members are ex- understand on the west has asked the Little Ship Clubs pert seamen, and opposition is felt coast, which, culturally and eco-whose 2,000 members range from engines. Also they know knots. don't forget: nomically, has always been closer admirals to workers in offices, and and hitches, to Britain. Even in the most shops, to help him meet the there's an art in mooring a craft, where Rus-transport difficulties caused by "Nobody can stèp straight on northern provinces, sian danger is felt most acutely, the shortage of skilled; canal bar- the Quislingites have not succeed-gemen. ed in getting any great following.
They will "ship" at the rates of pay ruling on £3 a week or mates and £3 10s. to the canals
6 10s. for skippers and engineers.
and
-a bargand run it. They must
a have tha: nadaasary ... akili, to He believes the work of a taka. It through narrow. osnain,
be performed by and looke The nucleus of the opposition, barge. can
"Many of our members have says the writer, is to be found yachtsmen, especially those with among the Intellectuala while, knowledge of Diesel, semi-Diesel, gone into the Navy, but we still the "Quislingités" pretend, that and internal combustion engines, have a large number who sail businera, màn hy refusing to which many of their small craft and crew their own small crait,, In the early days of the war deal with party members, are, carry.
Mr. T. V. Mercer, solicitor, who members of the Little Ship Club oresting grantest difficulties From this cautiously worded runs a 19-tons auxiliary kétch formed a Thames patrol to keep report, appearing in a news and is a member of the Little a day and night watch on piers, paper that is not consolouque Ship Club committee, aald: "I am wharves, factories, and riveraide of buildings." The patrol has since for its pro-British sympathies, it forming a preliminary roster c
can be seen that there is no members willing to take over a been disbanded.