NORWAY'S SABOTEURS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXII, Issue 265, 8 October 1942, Page 2

NORWAY'S SABOTEURS

WIDESPREAD EFFECTS

(Rec. 11.25 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 7. The state of emergency in Norway now extends for 700 miles from near Narvik southward. Reports from Stockholm say Norwegians particularly directed sabotage against port facilities which the Germans are constructing around Trondheim Fiord. T,hey' blow up an electrical transformer station at Tannrem, in Aasen Fiord, last week, and no electrical equipment throughout the district has operated since. Trondheim's chief of police has requisitioned 200 dogs to guard buildings against sabotage. The Oslo radio disclosed that the Quislingist gauleiter was among the 10 executed. He was charged with sabotage of industrial installations. A special Nasjonal Samlin<s (Quisling Party) Court sentenced eight prominent Quislingists to t! rec years' imprisonment for rationing offences The Quislingist authorities suppressed reports of the case because the chief of the Ministry of Justice and tin. Minister of the Interior and other equally prominent Quislir.gists were implicated. Yugoslav circles in London report that the Germans shot 80 Serbs at Zemun, near Belgrade, in the middle of September after a German hangar at a local aerodrome had been blown up. The Berlin radio, referring to the bomb explosion in a Paris cinema, said this is the third attack within a week against a meeting of Doriot's party. Doriot, at the funeral of one victim, vowed that no victim would go unavenged. It is reported from Moscow that a group of workers were recently arrested in a munition factory at Hirtenburgh, Austria, after German inspectors had condemned a large consignment of shells. The arrested workers, despite a threat of shooting, refused to betray the saboteurs.