FORTIFICATIONS
BEING BUILT IN NORWAY
SUDDEN TRANSFER OF
WORKERS
(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) (Rec. 2.30 p.m.)
' STOCKHOLM, February 17. Sixty thousand workers in Norway have been precipitately transferred from their own jobs to assist in the building of fortifications on the Norwegian coast under the direction of Albert Spehr, Dr. Todt's successor. Several industries hi south Norway have already stopped for lack of labour. Thousands of foreign workers, in addition to Norwegians, are already building fortifications around Trondheim and in other coastal regions, also inland on the
eastern frontier,
A. Berne report says that as part of their. gigantic food programme, the Germans have transferred 400,000 Russian farm workers from the Kiev and Jitomir regions to the former industrial areas of Dnepropetrovsk, Nikolaev, and Krivoi Rog, from which the Russians evacuated most of the workers last summer.
The Germans are planning to resettle large sections of White Russia with farmers from Denmark, Holland, and other countries.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 41, 18 February 1942, Page 6
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