UNDER MARTIAL LAW

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXII, Issue 264, 7 October 1942, Page 5

UNDER MARTIAL LAW

TRONDHEIM DISTRICT HARSH ENEMY MEASURES (N.Z. Press Association.—Copyright.) (Rec. 10.15 a.m.) RUGBY, Oct. 6. The police district of Trondheim and 10 other large districts have been placed under martial law, according to the Oslo radio. Terhoven, the German Commissar, states that during the past few weeks sabotage has recurred at various places, with the object of breaking down the supply system, and regulations have been issued providing that all disturbances of public security and order, all intervention with agents of the executive and administration, all interference with people willing to work or with centres of information and the Press, and all interference with supplies and communications will be punished I with death.

The curfew is to he imposed between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. All local traffic must cease by 7 p.m. The railways may be used only by the German armed forces and people with special permits. The curfew will be imposed in all public places at 7 p.m. Cinemas are to close altogether; all meetings indoors and out and all street gatherings are illegal; and finally all orders of authority must be unconditionally obeyed. Any resistance will be broken by use of arms and security will be afforded to all peace-loving citizens. —Official Wireless.

(Rec. noon) LONDON, Oct. 6. The state of emergency declared in the Trondheim region has also been proclaimed in the surrounding provinces. The Quisling gauleiter, Rodstad, wlio is prefect of the province of Trondheim, has taken over the administration of the territories, in which theatres, restaurants and public buildings are closed, meetings forbidden and traffic stopped from 7 p.m. to 5 a.m. Messages reaching Stockholm state that the police are active in arresting leading members of the Quisling Party who are not considered sufficiently German in their sympatic s.

The Berlin radio stated that the emergency was proclaimed because of acts of sabotage that had been committed, which, if successful, would have endangered the country’s supplies. A London report states that ten patriots were shot at Trondheim soon after the declaration of martial law.