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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 197, 20 August 1943, Page 3

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" QUISLING " PREMIER Wave Of Sabotage Sweeping Through Denmark N.Z. Press Association—Copyright Rec. 1 p.m. LONDON, Aug. 19. Relations between, the Germans and Danes have reached a crisis as the result of a wave of sabotage which is sweeping through Denmark and the tactit admission by the "Quisling" Prime Minister, Scavenius, that he is no longer able to control the situation. The correspondent of the British United Press in Stockholm says Scavenius has apparently realised that he has come to the end of his tether and has tried to resign, but the German Minister, Werner Best, has refused to accept his resignation.

The Germans have always allowed King Christian and Parliament technically to rule the country, but the end of this concession is possible unless the situation is cleared up within a few days. The Germans demanded that workmen discovered carrying out sabotage should be sent to prisons in Germany, but even Scavenius declined to comply with this demand. In the meantime a meeting of all Parliamentary groups will be held in Copenhagen to-mor-row, at which important decisions may be taken. Norway is simultaneously seething with renewed unrest. The whole country is deeply shocked as the result of the recent execution by the Germans of the chief of police, Gunnar Eilifsen. The Germans have now threatened to shoot all senior police who refuse to obey orders. German detachments in full kit have been parading through Oslo.