DENMARK ANGERED
MURDER OF NATIONAL POET BODY FOUND RIDDLED WITH BULLETS LONDON, January (i. The whole of Denmark is angered by the news of the murder of Kaj Munk, poet and pastor, one of the greatest Scandinavian dramatists and regarded as the successor to Hehrik Ibsen. His body was found riddled with revolver bullets ■ in a wood near Silkeborg, Jutland, says the ' Daily Telegraph's/ Stockholm correspondent'. The assassins are known to be four Danish Nazis. Munk, who was 46, uever ceased to write and preach against the Nazis and proclaim the cause of freedom. According to the Stockholm correspondent of the Associated Press, a traveller stated that the Germans banned Munk from preaching in 1942, but removed the ban in November. Munk at Christmas said that the British and Americans were coming to help the Danes to get ,rid of the Germans. The traveller added that the German soldier's in Jutland are in a state of alarm, and the Danes generally are-awaiting invasion.
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Evening Star, Issue 25067, 7 January 1944, Page 3
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