THREE NORWEGIANS EXECUTED
ESPIONAGE ALLEGED GERMAN COLRT-MARTIAL HELD. London. Aug. 11. The Germans executed three Norwegians on a charge of establishing an espionage organisation in Norway for the transmission of information to Britain, reports the Norwegian TeleAgency. Toe men were condemned to death tw a court-martial on August 1, the div on which the German commissa; declared a state of emergency and placed Norway completely in the hards of the German mil.tary autiurities. the Gestapo and the S.S.
According to the German cwifro.ier 1 Oslo radio, the men travelled secrer.lv to England, where they were persuaded to co-operate in the estinlisn ing o’ a spying organisation ,n Norway directed against the Girma.? A r >'j The men returned to Norway with a wireless transmitter, also a trubti containing revolvers and ammunition. —U.P.A,
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 189, 13 August 1941, Page 6
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