ALLIED SABOTAGE IN DENMARK
GERMAN ARMS FACTORY BLOWN UP
LONDON, May 14. Saboteurs blew up the main power station and partly destroyed the assembly shop at the Riffel Syndikatet in Copenhagen, which is Denmark’s largest and most closely-guarded arms factory, reports the Stockholm correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph.” Production is reported to be practically at a standstill. Repair gangs are making an all-out attempt to restart the factory, in which more than 1500 workers make machine-guns and antiaircraft guns for Germany. The Riffel works has long been regarded as a primary objective for saboteurs, but they are also most difficult to reach, for which reason it is thought in Stockholm that the job was possibly done by a specially-selected squad trained in Britain and dropped by parachute over Denmark. A recent arrival from Denmark estimated that at least 200 parachutists are operating throughout Denmark under the noses of the occupation forces.
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Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23949, 17 May 1943, Page 3
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