QUISLING REGIME

Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 42, 18 August 1941, Page 7

QUISLING REGIME

NEAR CRISIS IN NORWAY

BULGARIANS BITTER

(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.)

LONDON, August 16. Major Quisling, Nazi Chief of State in Norway, is now virtuallyinsane, two other members of his puppet Government have had "nervous breakdowns," and one of them is in an asylum. This is reported by a Norwegian correspondent of "The Times," who says that the situation in Norway is approaching: a crisis which may be . accompanied by serious disturbances. It is now clear to the Germans, he states, that the Quisling regime has failed entirely. The Quislings arc

boycotted by the Norwegian people.

A communique issued .in Belgrade, j Yugoslavia, announces that the Germans have burnt down the Serbian town of Gola as a reprisal for attacks by Yugoslav guerrillas against German military trucks. An inquiry, it states, established that the population had been aware of Communists' plans to attack the trucks, and failed to warn the police. The fire caused explosions among stacks of munitions in certain houses, confirming the complicity of the townspeople. ATTEMPTS ON BORIS'S LIFE. Three attempts have been made against the life of King Boris of Bulgaria since the German invasion of Russia. This was revealed to the Cairo correspondent of the "Daily Express" by a neutral from the Balkans, who said that conditions in Bulgaria have been chaotic since the German attack on Russia. The population hated the idea

of the German onslaught against their brother Slavs. The people's feelings are running high, not only against the Germans, but against the Bulgarian leaders, who are held responsible for dragging Bulgaria into the war on the wrong side.

King Boris has been virtually a prisoner in a country palace, which he leaves only on special occasions, and then heavily guarded.

A number of students and Bulgarian irregulars were arrested and summarily shot after the second and third attempts on the King's life.

Today, according to a Vichy message, the Paris police appealed for popular "co-operation" in putting down sabotage, which, the police declared, "is affecting the supply system and endangering 'human lives." A reward of 1,000,000 francs is offered for information leading to the arrest of wreckers who have been tampering with the railways and other transport systems.