LIBERATED NORWAY

Greymouth Evening Star, 10 May 1945, Page 6

LIBERATED NORWAY

QUISLING’S SURRENDER

PROTEST AT TREATMENT LONDON, May 9. News is still awaited of the Allied delegation which flew to Norway yesterday to arrange the capitulation of the Germans there. According \o the Swedish radio the delegation is now in Oslo. The Norwegian radi. 0 came on the air to announce: ‘ This is the Norwegian radio service, once again under true Norwegian control. The Norwegian High 6 Command has issued a communique saying that Norwegian troops and police nave occupied the northern part of the country. , , r Vidkun Quisling, who was head o.i the German-controlled 'Government in Norway, has given himself up m the Norwegian police, according to reports from Stockholm. Quisling and several of his Ministers are m custody in Oslo. The Norwegians have applied to Sweden for permission to transport 300,000 German soldiers across Swed'Bn‘ LATER.

Quisling and several members of his Cabinet to-day gave themselves up at Oslo police station. Quisling was pale and shaking all over. He knocked at the door of the famous Gestapo prison at Oslo at nine a.m. and announced he wished to place himself at the disoosal of the authorities. Charles Hoff, the Quisling sports leader and Olympic pole vaulter, was arrested late last night in his hom-e at Olso. The Propaganda Minister, Fulesang, also surrendered to the authorities. ' , . When ’ Quisling surrendered nc was annoyed that a Suitcase . was taken from him, states the Associated Press Oslo correspondent. Tne suitcase contained chocolate and a botiie of brandy. He objected to being locked in a cell and said: “Statesmen like me shouldn’t have an ordinary cell.’ The police told him that a' prisoners were treated alike. He nact for some time delivered speeches about “all the good things he did lor Norway.” FATAL CLASHES. (Rec. 10.40 a.m.) LONDON, May 9. Many were killed in clashes m Oslo last night between Germans and Norwegian patriots, says Renter’s Oslo correspondent. - Thousands of people celebrating peace had io run for their lives when hand grenades were thrown and shots fired. The firing and heavy detonations continued for some hours.