MARTIAL LAW

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 237, 7 October 1942, Page 3

MARTIAL LAW

TRONDHEIM AREA

Quisling Party Purge Reported

In Progress

United Press Association—Copyright Rec. 1 p.m. LONDON, Oct. 6,

In Norway to-day a state of emergency was declared in the region of Trondheim, oe of the bases for German attacks on British and American convoys to Russia. Trondheim has been placed under the direct control of the German army of occupation in Norway, and all Norwegians have been ordered to be inside the houses well before nightfall.

The police district of Trondheim and ten other large districts have been placed under martial law, according to the Oslo radio. Terboven, the German commissar, states during the past few weeks sabotage has recurred at various places with the object of breaking down the supply system, and regulations have been issued providing that all dis-

turbances of public security and order, all intervention with agents of the executive and administration, all interference with the people willing to work or with centres of information and the Press, and all interference with supplies and communications will be punished with death.

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. The curfew will be imposed in 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 unconditionally obeyed. Any resistance will be broken by the use of arms and security will be afTorded all peace-loving citizens. Sabotage Admitted The state of emergency declared in the Trondheim region has also been proclaimed in the surrounding provinces. The Quisling gauleiter, Rodstad, who is prefect of the province of Trondheim, has taken over administration of the territories in which theatres, restaurants, and public buildings had been closed and meetings forbidden.

Messages reaching Stockholm state that the police have been active in arresting leading members of the Quisling party who are not considered sufficiently German in sympathies. The Berlin radio states the emergency has been proclaimed because of acts of sabotage committed which, if successful,. would have endangered the country's supplies.

Earlier reports from Stockholm states that open revolt has broken out among members of Quisling's party at Trondheim as a result of Quisling's order to them to fight in Russia. A purge of the Quisling party has been going on throughout Norway. Many prominent members have been interned and are awaiting sentence. Some have been sent to a labour camp. Other members of the Quisling party have been trying to escape to Sweden. Another German soldier in Norway has been found dead. As a reprisal 100 Norwegians have been arrested.