MARTIAL LAW.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 62, Issue 306, 8 October 1942, Page 3

MARTIAL LAW.

DECLARATION IN NORWAY. MEASURES AGAINST SABOTAGE. LONDON, Oct. 6. It is reported from Stockholm that a state of emergency has been declared in the Trondheim area of Norway because acts of sabotage have been committed. The police district at Trondheim and 10 other large districts have been placed under martial law, according to the, Oslo radio. Terboven, the German Commissar, says that during the last few weeks sabotage has recurred in various places with the object of breaking down the supply system. Regulations have been issued providing that all disturbances of the public secuiity and order, all intervention with agents of the executive and. administration, all interference with people willing to work or with centres of information and the press, and all interference with supplies and communications, will be punished with death. Terboven said the sabotage recently committed in the Trondheim area was mainly against food factories. The police had been ordered to strike with all the means available if necessary. He warned Norwegians that the future would be hard, but they had nothing to fear if they refrained from rash acts. A curfew is to be imposed between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. All local traffic must cease by 7 p.m. The railways may be used only by the German armed forces and people with special permits. A curfew will be imposed on all public places at 7 p.m. Cinemas are to close altogether. All meetings, indoors and out, and all street gatherings are illegal, and finally all organs of authority must be unconditionaly obeyed. Aliy resistance will be broken .by the use of arms and security will be afforded all peace-loving citizens. Ten Norwegian patriots were shot in Trondheim, to-night by order of Ter.boven. The men, who were accused of sabotaging food>-producing industries, included two barristers, a newspaper editor, a bank director, and a shipping agent.

Norwegians known to he loyal to the Norweigan Government in London are required to bear the cost of the damage suffered by the Quisling headquarters in Oslo in the recent R.A.F. raid, says the Norwegian Telegraph Agency. The damage is assessed at £175,000. Individual payments range from £SO to £15,000, which must be paid within six days.