DANISH POET

Grey River Argus, 7 January 1944, Page 6

DANISH POET

MURDERED BY DANISH < NAZIS. (Rec. 9.5.) LONDON, Jan. 5. The “Daily Telegraph’s” Stockholm correspondent says:— The whole of Denmark has been angered at news of the murder of Kaj Munk, a poet and pastor, and ong of thp greatest Scandanavian dramatists, wlho was regarded as the successor to Ibsen, and whose body was found riddled with revolver bullets in a wood near Silkeborg, in Jutland. The assassins are,known to be four Danish Nazis. Munk, who was aged forty-six, has never ceased to write and to preach against the Nazis, and to proclaim the cause of freedom. . , , According to the British Associated Preso Stockholm correspondent, a traveller stated the Germans banned Munk from preaching in 1942. Thev removed the ban in November 1943. 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 German soldiers in Jutland were in a state of alarm. The. Danes generally were awaiting an invasion.