CHEERED THEIR KING

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 208, 3 September 1943, Page 5

CHEERED THEIR KING

DANES' DEFIANCE OF NAZIS Reed. 7 p.m. London, Sept. 1. Despite the German ban on assemblies. thousands of Danes lined Copenhagen streets yesterday and cheered King Christian as he drove under a German guard through a Copenhagen suburb. The King stopped his car and said. “I am nappy to hear that the Danish language is still spoken in •my country. Keep on with that.” The Germans news agency announced that, “in view ot the calm attitude of the Danish population,” the curfew in Copenhagen had been relaxed to 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. Restaurants, theatres and cinemas were permitted to open until 10 p.m. Previously the curfew started at sundown. The Germans are reported to have brought artillery into the streets of Copenhagen last night. Another Danish submarine has escaped to Sweden. She submerged in Copenhagen harbour for nine hours while other Danish vessels were being scuttled. Danish guards at the Horseroed internment camp, north of Copenhagen, allowed 412 Danish Communist prisoners, including several Members of Parliament and prominent intellectuals, to escape. The Government, under German pressure, had interned Communists since the outbreak of the Russian-German war. The Germans on Tuesday notified the Danes that they intended taking over. By nightfall all the prisoners had disappeared.