NORWEGIAN VILLAGE ESCAPES
LONDON, August 5. . About 200 persons, representing the entire population of the Norwegian border village of Enberget, near Trysil, have escaped into Sweden bringing with them their cattle and other possessions, in spite of a tightening of the German border patrol and the publication of stern threats of reprisals against friends or families of those who flee. From Setskogen, a sparsely populated, area south of Kongsvinger, 70 persons have fled into Sweden. At one place a teacher arrived at his school one mornin; to learn that all his pupils had fled int Sweden with their parents during th previous night. One of the chief reasor for the exodus, explains the Swedish newspaper “Dagligt Allehanda, has been the discovery by the Germans of underground activity in frontier districts. This discovery is being followed by numerous a rres ts and the taki ng of hostages.
Mr T. Martin, who has been stationmaster at Waipukurau for some years, is leaving on promotion to Gisborne as stationmaster.
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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 270, 10 August 1943, Page 5
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