OCCUPIED COUNTRIES

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 May 1943, Page 5

OCCUPIED COUNTRIES

BULGARIAN RESIGNATIONS

LONDON, May 15

An Ankara message says it is reported from Sofia that the Minister of the Interior, M. Grabowski, and the Minister of Commerce, M. Zaharioff, have resigned following German demands for stricter measures for the maintenance of internal security.

DANISH FACTORY EXPLOSION

LONDON, May 14.

■ Saboteurs blew up the main power station and partly destroyed the assembly shop at the Riffel Syndikatet 'in Copenhagen, which is Denmark’s largest and most closely-guarded arms factory, reports the Stockholm correspondent of the “Daily Telel graph.” Production is reported to be I practically at a standstill. Repair’ ■ gangs are making an all-out attempt ! to restart the factory, in which more than 1500 workers make machineguns and anti-aircraft guns for Germany. The Riffel works has long been regarded as a primary objective for saboteurs, but they are also most difficult to reach, for which reason it is thought in Stockholm that the job ■was possibly done by a specially-se-lected squad trained in Britain and dropped by parachute over Denmark.. A recent arrival from Denmark estijrnated that at least 200 parachutists ?are operating throughout Denmark under the noses of the occupation forces.