COPENHAGEN OCCUPIED
40,000 GERMAN SOLDIERS (Received Aug. 25, 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, Aug. 24 Forty thousand German soldiers, with tanks and armoured vehicles, have completely occupied Copenhagen, says a message from Stockholm. The Germans have also proclaimed a slate of emergency in six Danish cities as the resuit of sabotage, strikes and riots between the Danes and German soldiers, in which there were at least fifty deaths. The Danish radio announced that an explosion, which was heard throughout the city, wrecked the Forum Hall in Copenhagen. The glass roof and most of the circular walls collapsed. The Forum Hall is the largest in Copenhagen. It has a capacity of 16,000 persons.
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Waikato Times, Volume 132, Issue 22125, 25 August 1943, Page 3
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