STILL CONTINUING

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 134, 4 December 1944, Page 5

STILL CONTINUING

NAZI EVACUATION FROM NORWAY

Rec. 9 a.m. LONDON, Dec. 3. The Norwegian Government's Information Office, in a statement on the German rejection of a Swedish offer to give sanctuary to Norwegians, says that the Norwegian Government characterises Germany's reason for the rejection—because the evacuation has already been carried out satisfactorily and the majority of the evacuees have been transported to central and southern Norway—as completely untrue. Reports from Norway confirm that civilians are still being driven from their homes. Large numbers of civilians in eastern Finmark who evaded the enforced evacuation have returned to their home areas, and their plight is even worse than that of the evacuees Their possessions have been destroyed and they have no food or shelter. Epidemics have broken out, and medical aid is desperately required. The German news agency claims that the evacuation of 40,000 Norwegians, mainly fishermen and sailors, from the northern provinces of Norway has been completed. ■ A Stockholm message states that as part of the systematic stripping of the Tromso and Finmark areas the Germans are machine-gunning herds of reindeer from the air because Lap herdsmen tried to hide them.