PITCHED BATTLE

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 267, 13 October 1941, Page 5

PITCHED BATTLE

NORWEGIANS AND NAZIS. ANNEXATION THREAT. (United Press Association —Copyright.) (Rec. 8.5 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 12 Despatches from Norway report that ten persons have been seriously injured in a pitched battle at Mysen; near Oslo, between members of Quisling’s pro-Nazi youth organisation and 500 hostile Norwegians. Nazi soldiers aided the police in restoring order. Over 50 arrests were made. The Moscow radio announces that the Nazi commissioner in Norway, Terboyen, is threatening German annexation of Norway because of the constant disturbances.. The Berlin correspondent of the Stockholm Tidningen says that the Lithuanian “Activist Movement” which helped Germany to conquer Lithuania lias been dissolved, its funds confiscated. and the leader, M. Prapolernis, gaoled. The movement lost 4000 . men lighting for Germany during the occupation of Lithuania. It is learned that the full stringency of the Nuremberg Laws has been applied in Holland, says tlie Daily Telegraph. Jews are 'forbidden to attend public meetings and they must not visit parks and cafes or travel in sleeping and dining cars on trains. Jews are also required to deposit in a specified bank all securities and mortgages over £SOO. The Germans in Paris announce two more executions as a reprisal for attacks against the occupation troops, making a total of 75 persons executed in Occupied France. The British D'nited Press Berlin correspondent reports that the German News Agency announced that 12 “Communists have been killed in a battle in Belgrade.” The agency adds that presumably the 'battle was against troops and police. The German News Agency announces that 25 were executed at Prague and Brno yesterday tor economic sabotage and the possession of weapons without a permit, including a departmental chief of the Ministry of Agriculture. To-day 15 more persons were sentenced to death in Prague and Brno. Tiie Prague radio said that the Nazi protector. Hoydrich, has dissolved the .Sokol sports organisation and confiscated its property throughout the cou ntrv. ' EDITORS POISONED. The German News Agency says that M. Karl Laznovsky, editor of the newspaper Ceskeslovo, lias died as a result of poisoning, and that several other Czech editors who have been friendly to Germany are also ill from poisoning. The agency stated that foreign broadcasts had agitated for a long time against the editors and demanded that they “he made harmless.” Rome reports that a man. when asked in a street in Zagreb for his identity card, drew a revolver and shot a . policeman and wounded another" policeman and a soldier, who pursued and finally killed him.

The Russian News Agency says that Hr. Otto Strasser, leader of the antiNazi movement Black Front, has arrived in Lisbon from Canada to confer with members of his organisation who recently escaped from Germany. The Moscow radio quotes a report from'-Istanbul that 10 soldiers, including two .members of the personal guard of the Rumanian Chief of State (General Antoneseu) have been arrested for an attempt to kill him. The Swiss radio says that a courtmartial at Travnik (Bosnia) imposed the death sentence on 24 Communists, but commuted 11 of the sentences' to five years’ imprisonment. A. Jew and a student have been shot at Sarajevo for Communist propaganda.