DARING SABOTAGE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25799, 21 March 1945, Page 6

DARING SABOTAGE

NORWEGIAN UNDERGROUND MANY RAILWAY LINES CUT LONDON, Mar. 19. With a thoroughness that showed careful planning and a completeness of attention to detail that indicated that several hundred men were involved, Norwegian underground forces on the night of March 14 carried out their greatest single blow of the war against German railway * communications in South Norway. Details of the damage have just been revealed in London, says the British United Press. Every railway connecting Oslo with the German disembarkation ports in South Norway was in a single night so effectively cut that it is not likely they can be repaired for weeks. All German attempts to evacuate troops from Norway through the ports of Halden, Fredrikstad, and Moss, all on the east side of Oslo Fiord, will consequently be at a standstill for a considerable time. The railways have been broken in scores of places, bridges blown up, and points and signal boxes put out of action. Forty breaches have been made in one section of the railway between two stations. Another single breach is so large that it will take a month to repair the line. One daring group of patriots penetrated the town of Sandefiord, on the west side of Oslo Fiord, to dynamite the railway, thereby cutting communications between Sandefiord and Toensberg, 15 miles farther north along the coast. '