Evening star., 1940-04-15
Amazing Story Of Treason
Opening Norway to Nozis
Continued From First Pare.)


Morse naval base Horton mornng-sl
Dr. Halvdan Kohte commander three warshps
at Horten received urgent supposedly signed
by Dr. Koht himself and accepted coming direct from the
via Ministry Foreign Norwegian
ships not to fight against the German warshs which
the ford and to all their ashore
Without questioning origin ORDER the commander
ordered all his ashore except stokers and
From here slight hitch which costly the Germans
put IN Tor repairs the previous evening Its apparently
was unknown the leaders of the conspiracy in This
the only Norwegian vessel which did
and so remained in condition fight Aerwad Norwegian
sailor VINO verified these developments declared 1T only
through treason that the Germans got in"
Meanwhile an even greater had been scored by the
potter The Fjord controlled
from Drobak About 1870 o'clock morning April these
mines all rendered harmless being
neced central The mystery of who ordered this
to be done remained Oslo this move
enabled
43 still half an hour before the German Minister handed
the ultln1atum to Dr. Koh German cruiser believed
been the Emden
The three Morse vessels completely helpless
1t Immediately discharged
submarine 1t reported though unable
that the cruiser Buechr also sunk by the FORT called
Oskarborg
Germans Landed and Seized Horten
In any case all other crews were ashore without at
Horen daybreak and seized
oren The through the and Oslo defense
less from the
talked to another Norwegian member of the
OF the above events including the fact that two German cruisers
sunk
Later the Germans got ashore"
Ihere fighting We had four killed.
two But there nothing could The officers ships
white flags. We didn't know why and still don't
why We thought they had orders government"
In this fashion Norways capital betrayed from within
and the German occupation Of Oslo assured before
knew what had happened Parliament refused
to capituate.
Before the Germans Horen the Oslo government
had already ordered mobilization precauion Accordingly
before daybreak April of Norwegans reported
at the Horen railroad station They Immediately
by the German marines landing party placed
German ships which up.
When warships approached formidable
borg fortress at the
afterward they radoed the forts
cordng report the Naz sd We've
fortress remained silent the German warss
into Osos inner harbo The occupation
evitabe
Meanwhile night Grand Hotel
with succession of air alarms the which
o'clock in the morning about the time mobilization
At first could believe
from those in Helsnki
traffic JAM Later Stevens and decided Norwegians
only iralarng precaution up
until o'clock when diplomat
matum and the governments decision to leave
Planes Dove Over the City.
At 745 o'clock while still slightest
had happened in Oslo Ford Horen,
suddenly roaring rooftop they almost
touched them We watched them expecting bombs
tariy For half hours
always only three five number They
ze the populae into the
while the first troops landed by air at Fornebo outside
Thousands of Osloans gazed curiouy fearuy
panic occurred None of dreamed that German waps
in the inner harbor doomed still
thought that British ships
1t seemed utterly incredible that the Ford
have been forced by the Germans and its
The madness of ncomprehensbe
myshcaon complete lack Of defense
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