NAZI-OCCUPIED COUNTRIES

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 January 1941, Page 8

NAZI-OCCUPIED COUNTRIES

INCREASING RESISTANCE [BY CABLE. —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] LONDON, January 15. Messages from Prague and Norway indicate growing resistance to Germany’s new order. Although the State President of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (Dr. Hacha) is reported to have said that the Czechs were determined to co-operate in the organic reconstruction of the Continent, Baron von Neurath, Reich Protectoi’ of Bohemia and Moravia, addressing important German officers and civil servants, is reported to have declared that he was profoundly dissatisfied with the Czechs. He then attacked members of the Government, stating that they were playing Dr. Benes’s game. “Efforts to win the collaboration of the Czechs cannot be continued indefinitely,” he said. “There will be repression of all unreliable people, whatever official position they may hold. I shall not hesitate to establish a military dictatorship, if necessary. The spirit of resistance must be broken.”

The Norwegian Telegraph Agency in London reports serious disturbances in Norway after attempts by Quisling Storm Troopers to tyrannise civilians. Fighting recently occurred at Drammen, in which several were injured. Storm Troopers forced their way into cells at the police station and maltreated people arrested in street affrays. New prisoners are continually arriving in concentration camps. An appeal to the population to meet Quisling attempts at terrorisation with armed force has been secretly circulated in parts of eastern Norway. The German filching of food supplies has enhanced the unrest. The large stocks of food in Norway are rapidly dwindling. Other reports say that spies have now been appointed to listen-in on telephone conversations. In the towns, the inhabitants have to be indoors by 8 p.m., and meetings have been prohibited and special quarters have been set aside for the Germen troops in order to avoid incidents. A correspondent of the “Daily Express” on the German frontier reports that Herr Baldur von Shirach, the Nazi Governor of Austria, has demanded a full report from the Gestapo, of the “disgraceful exhibition” in the ( Prater (a famous Vienna park) when ! Austrian conscripts joined a crowd in; a noisy demonstration against “thej Axis.

One Austrian conscript called out: “We have had enough. We did not want this war; we want our homes. Down with the Prussians!” Many were arrested. The Hitler salilte is seldom seen in Vienna these days. 1