BANISHED NORWEGIAN TEACHERS
FLOATING “BLACK HOI KOK j (ALCUTTA 1 1;«-, i:>.» p.m . London, April 27. A floating Black Hole of Calcutta” is the description applied to the steamship Skjerstad. in which over 500 banished Norwegian teachers and fifty German guards were crammed into accommodation intended for 250 persons. The Norwegian Telegraph Agency received information from Norway to the effect that the Gestapo first herded over 800 arrested teachers' in a military camp where they picked out 500 for hard labour in the far north. They entrained for Trondheim in cattle trucks m which they were so closely packed that they had to stand throughout the journey. Then they were placed aboard the Skjerstad. A local physician pleaded that, the voyage be put off as he was convinced that many would not survive but his plea was ignored. The captain refused responsibility for the voyage because of overloading, but the Germans insisted on the voyage being made. The ship called at Tromsk, continuing tlie voyage to Kirkenes. —P.A.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 28 April 1942, Page 2
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