QUISLING POLICE TRICKED

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 272, 12 August 1943, Page 5

QUISLING POLICE TRICKED

LONDON, July 23. How a party of young Norwegians tricked the Quisling police in Oslo and set two parties of them fighting together, is told in a story which has reached Norwegian circles in London. Some young 'Norwegians placed a bundle of underground newspapers on the window ledge of a large Oslo office building, then called the police and said the papers were to be picked up by patriots. Three officers in plain clothes were immediately dispatched to the scene to hold watch. Meanwhile the boys had called another police station to report the presence of the bundle of papers and suggested that plain clothes men be sent to pick them up so that neighbours or pass-ers-by would not grow suspicious. In due time two men arrived to piek tip Ihe bundle. No sooner had they done so than they were set, upon by the three officers holding watch. There ensued a hot battle with much swinging of fists. Finally someone thought of flashing his police badge, and the others did the same. It was a highly embarrassing moment for the police, and a highly enjoyable one for the crowd of onlookers who bad gathered.