BREAK STILL POSSIBLE

Timaru Herald, Volume CLII, Issue 22398, 9 October 1942, Page 5

BREAK STILL POSSIBLE

Pressure On Denmark Crticial Negotiations By Telegraph—N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright (10 p.m.) , f LONDON, Oct. 7. It is reported from Stockholm that crucial negotiations proceeded at Copenhagen all day between the German and Danish authorities. Although the possibility of a complete break between, the two countries still exists, the belief is growing that the Germans are hesitating to arouse Denmark to further hostility.

According to Reuter’s Stockholm correspondent the German demands include at least two affecting constitutional as well as Other fundamental points. It is believed ih Stockholm that the Danish Government is determined to reject any aiiti-COfistituttonal demands. Norwegian Emergency

The state of emergency in Norway now extends 700 miles, from near Narvik southward. Reports from Stockholm say that the Norwegians particularly directed sabotage against the port facilities, which the Germans were constructing around Trondheim Fiord. They blew up an electrical transformer station at Tanhrem, in Aasen, Fiord, last week and no electrical equipnient throughout the district has operated since. The chief of police at Trondheim requisitioned 200 dogs to guard buildings against sabotage.

The Oslo radio disclosed that the Quislingist Gauleiter was among the 70 already reported as having been executed. He was charged with sabotage of industrial installations. The special nasjonalsamllng (Quisling Party) court sentenced eight prominent QUislingists to three years’ Imprisonment for rationing offences. The Quisling authorities suppressed all reports of thecase because the Chief of the- Ministry? -of Justice and the Minister of the Interior and other .equally prominent Quislings were implicated.

The execution ol another 15 Norwegian patriots was announced by the Oslo radio., which, quoting an official German statemEht, said: A court maf.tial at Trondheim passed 15 death sentences and two sentences of 10 years’ imprisonment. The executions -were carried out. to-night. The Oslo News Agency says that the Trondheim court martial proved that those executed belonged to groups of siilpers formed and equipped by “emigrants of London.” These groups had been instructed to hold themselves in readiness for a possible British invasion. A report from Stockholm says that the Norwegian- 6 police are busy checking the identity papers of inhabitants within the area subjected to the state of emergency. Large numbers of persons whose papers were not in order have been arrested.