BATTLE REPORTED

Grey River Argus, 3 July 1944, Page 2

BATTLE REPORTED

In Danish Capital

also a general strike. (Rec. 10.0.) NEW YORK, July 1A “Times’s” correspondent at Stockholm says: It. is reported that fifteen thousand Danish underground troops equipped with machine-guns and automatic rifles launched an attack against the German garrison in Copenhagen, numbering about three thousand.

It is reported fighting was especially bitter near a main railroad station. and that Nazis commandeered all private trucks and automobiles to bring troops to Copenhagen, because a strike and sabotage immobilised alt railways. Furious street battles continned all night, while inhabitants were defying the Nazi curfew, openly challenging the Wehrmacht, flying British and American flags, singing th e United Nations’ national anthems, and lighting bonfires from Nazi books and newspapers. The Danish radio, which for several hours continued plavmg gramophone records, suddenly went off the air without an explanation. It is supposed this was because Danish saboteurs destroyed th e power station. The Swedsh radio announced that a strike situation in Copenhagen had become extremely serious in the last twenty-four hours, it being estimated that between three and four hundred thousand men had stopped work. An Associated Press correspondent at Stockholm stated reports reaching Malmoe stated that barricades flying American, British, Russian and Danish flags filled streets in Copenhagen on Friday night, when Danish patriots continued a battle against German troops. The Germans were seeking to break un a two-day demonstration. The Danes say a general strike started in Copenhagen on Friday brought to a standstill the water, electricity and transport, services, causing food supplies to dwindle. Hospitals were filled with casualties. Reports trickling into southern Sweden stated more than seven hundred already have been killed or wounded. It was reported that the Germans threatened to shoot hostages and bomb the capital unless the Danes called off the strike.