PURGE IN OSLO

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 127, 25 November 1940, Page 7

PURGE IN OSLO

THE QUISLING REGIME

DISMISSALS AND ARRESTS

RIOTS IN DENMARK

(Official Wireless and U.P.A.)

LONDON, November 23. The Stockholm correspondent of "The Times" says that supporters of Major Quisling, the Nazi administrator, have begun a purge of the administration of Olso, and have dismissed and arrested many leading men. These include Messrs. Adolf Tndrebo and J. Sundby, former Ministers, both of whom have been arrested, Mr. Gann, director of the chief meat enterprises, and Mr. Tryggve Nielsen, one of Oslo's most prominent councillors for many years. Both of the last-named have been dismissed and may be arrested.

Major Quisling's leading officials are holding meetings throughout the countryi most of which are ending in free fights and arrests, often accompanied by demonstrations in favour of King Haakon.

In Denmark, the same correspondent states, Nazi demonstrations have ended in riots, and th? Government, determined to prevent further uniformed Nazi meetings, has ordered a number of arrests.

Light on the German disappointment at the unsatisfactory progress made in Denmark of the Nazi plan for a new order in Europe is thrown by articles in the German paper "Nordschleswigshe Zeitung," one of which asks: "Why cannot the Danes express gratitude that the protection of their country has been undertaken by such

a powerful military force?" The paper says: "It is impossible to understand why democratic Danes hate everything German. The words, 'in these our country's dark days,' open almost every Danish meeting. The days would indeed have been dark had German forces not prevented Denmark from becoming a battlefield. Denmark must change if she is going to occupy the allotted place in the new Europe."

Another article in the same Germancontrolled newspaper says: "Among the population of Copenhagen a dreadful hate against Hitler and the German troops prevails. It is heard in private conversations, in cafes, and hi the streets when German soldiers pass. The German soldiers rarely understand, but they gather from the grins on the faces of those present that it is 'uncomplimentary."