COPENHAGEN RIOT

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20625, 28 November 1941, Page 5

COPENHAGEN RIOT

ANTI-COMINTERN PACT ROME DEMONSTRATIONS (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. Nov. 28, 11 a.m.) NEW YORK, Nov. 27. Riots which lasted all day occurred in Copenhagen owing to Denmark’s signing of the anti-Comintern pact. They began when crowds gathered at the palace cheering the King, who is stated to be opposed to the signing of the pact and who threatened to abdicate. German troops cleared the square fronting the palace, after which rioting occurred in various parts, particularly at the Foreign Office, where the crowd shouted: “Down with the Traitor, Scavenius,” the Danish Foreign Minister, and also outside German Army headquarters, where they sang “Tipperary.” The demonstrations continued far into the night. The British United Press’ representative at Stockholm, connrming the reports of riots at Copenhagen, states that the Germans made 40 arrests. Nazis Machine-gun Italians Sensational reports from Zurich that German troops had turned machine-guns on Italian crowds demonstrating in the Piazza Venezia for the recall of the Italian troops from Libya are printed in the New York Post. Nazi soldiers, it is stated, broke up a number of meetings and riots occurred. Several German soldiers were recently shot after a riot at a German camp at Bergen, says the Norwegian Telegraph Agency. The unrest followed th: shooting of a man who talked too openly to his comrades about conditions in Germany after a visit home. A riot then broke out, resulting in further executions. A report from Istanbul says Germany has agreed to repatriate all unskilled Hungarian workers from Germany, estimated to total 20,000. Hungarian diplomats at Istanbul state that their repatriation is necessary because of the continual disciplinary difficulties as a result of the Hungarians' dissatisfaction with working conditions, food and low wages.