NEW SITUATION

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 103, 3 May 1945, Page 7

NEW SITUATION

NAZIS YIELDING CONTROL

LONDON, May 1

The Danes are resuming control of their own country, says the British1 United Press correspondent in Stockholm. The Danish police, in full unlform, are again patrolling the streets; of several towns in Jutland and have' been enthusiastically cheered by the population.

The newspapei- "Folke Bladet" reports that 70 Danish policemen assumed control:of the city of Horsen, after reaching an agreement with th» local German commander. The Ger-j mans withdrew without incident at. all j places where the Danes resumed con-: trol. Danes and Germans recently^ were negotiating an agreement under: which the Danish police will be reinstated throughout the country. v : The "Daily Telegraph's" Stockholm correspondent says that negotiations! are proceeding between the German! Commissar, Dr. Werner Best, and the; Danish.Home Front leaders for the bloodless capitulation -of the Germans throughout Denmark. . The Danish underground movement, estimates that 100,000 Germans are in. Denmark, including 17,000 Luftwaffe personnel and 25,000 naval men avho have been drafted in as ground troops.; Danish police forces, estimated at* 5000, are standing by in the south..of* Sweden ready to return immediately the Germans capitulate. . The Danish underground is reported,,' to have a provisional ■Government! ready to assume control at any moment.

A Stockholm report says that th« Germans tonight arc packing removal vans outside the headquarters of the German Minister to Denmark, and that Gestapo men arc burning documents.