CLASHES IN DENMARK
NAZIS SEND PICKED POLICE
LONDON, August 23. The SS police have sent 500 picked agents to Denmark to improve the safeguarding of the industries working for Germany following upon the latest outbreak of sabotage. According to news reaching Zurich from Berlin, another 500 are being sent tomorrow. . Circles in the Wilhelmstrasse are of the opinion that the Danish Government's recent proclamation is not sufficient to prevent further sabotage.
Reuters Stockholm correspondent says that further reports »of tension in Odense have been received from Denmark. A German officer was trampled to death by an angry crowd. During the recent troubles a crowd of more than 1000 Danes killed a German soldier who had fired on them. The Gestapo restored order after using pistols, bayonets, and hand grenades and killing a number of persons. , Clashes between Germans and Danes also occurred in Copenhagen when a group of members of the Free Corps, composed of so-called Danish volunteers, provoked trouble.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 48, 25 August 1943, Page 5
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