SHIPYARD WRECKED
SABOTAGE IN COPENHAGEN Rec. 11 a.m. LONDON, Dec. 22. Ten persons were killed in an explosion which wrecked the Copenhagen shipyard on Sunday, state reports from Stockholm. Saboteurs are believed to have planted a timebomb in the yard where Diesel engines for U-boats were being made. At the works the flames spread rapidly and engulfed a large warehouse block. The explosion coincided with the arrival in Copenhagen of the Nazi gauleiter for Holland, Seyss Inquart. The power plant of a big engineering workshops in Copenhagen was totallv destroyed this morning. It is reported that six persons succeeded in getting into the plant unseen. They placed bombs and disappeared.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 304, 23 December 1943, Page 5
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