Evening star., 1942-10-07
Nazis Enforce Reign
OF Terror in Norway
After Executing 10
/W More Are Arrested;
Further Steps Threatened
To Check Sobotoqe
BY the Associated Press.

20 Sheck Sabotage
BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Oct. 7.-Nazi Com
missioner Josef Terboven and
new contingents of the German
secret police enforced a reign of
Terror In the Norwegian province
OF Irondheim today after execut-
ing ~ prominent Norwegians
and arresting an estimated TOO
more IN an effort to stem rising
tioe OF sabotage, reports to Scan
olnavlan circles here said.
A state of emergency has been
proclaimed In Trondheim and a
coastal strip 400 miles long. Ter
ooSen announced severe punish
ment would follow the slightest in
suoordination. Terboven had been
IN !rondheim only a few hours yes
teroav when NaN firing SQUAD
canned the lives of the first 10
victims.
Prominent Men Victims,
among those executed, Stockholm
dispatches said, were Henry Cred
lIscn, well-known theater manager:
Harald Langhelle, city councilman
ana social democratic editor. and
Per Lykke, shipowner.
Norwegian circles here said a bank
director, two lawyers, a civil engi-
heer and a building contractor also
were among those executed, The
property Of all the victims was con-
nscated. All were said to have been
from Trondheim, Roeros and
Orkanger.
Ihey seem to have come down
and haphazardly picked out prom
lnent citizens and shot them as a.
form OF intimidation of the popu-
lation," the Norwegian Telegraph
Agency here said. Norwegian gov
ernment quarters said the official
German report of the shooting
claimed the men were shot as an
atonement" for several acts of sa-
botage.
None of the men was under ar
rest. accused Of any specific crime
or even held as hostage, these
sources said.
News Stern Warning.
Announcing that the new measure
were instituted to break the sabo-
tage threatening the country's sup
ply system" Terboven was reported
to have declared:
MY generosity is finished. Moth
ing will change my uncompromising
decision to smash the enemys
manipulations and provocations.
A Stockholm radio report inti-
mated hostile action had been di-
rected against the German Army
and that efforts had been made to
sabotage the Trondheim- Mosjo
Railway.
A power station at Tannrem also
had been dynamited, shutting off
power and forcing the Germans to
stop work at a naval base under
construction. London reports said.
Shipyard workers we're forbidden to
leave the yards.
A score of followers of Nazi-
backed Premier Vidkun Quisling
were arrested on charges that they
were not sufficiently active for the
Nazis, Scandinavian circles here re-
ported.
The chief of German police in
Oslo, who went to Trondheim with
Terboven. declared: Every attempt
to disturb public peace and Sc
curity, above an every plot against
peaceful work and every attempt to
hinder supplies, transport and the
information system will be pun
ished."
Danes Express Fears.
The tide of resentment against
German domination swept little
Denmark into the storm and Dan
ish sources here expressed the fear
the notion would vanish soon into
German federation of North Sea
countries.
Stockholm dispatches to a Lon
don newspaper said the Germans
had demanded from King Christian
x control of the Danish police and
key posts in the Ministry Of JUS
tice. Other reports said the Danes
had rejected German invitation
to become model state" in a Nazi
Europe.
Always treated with special de-
ference by the Nazis because she
offered very little resistance to the
German invasion. Denmark ap-'
peared destined to give up what
little independence she still pos
sessed, Danish circles feared.
The Oslo radio reported an in
ereasing number of clashes between
1.1OO Danish volunteers now on
leave from the Russian front, whore
they have been fighting for the
Nazis, and Copenhagen residents.
Danes feared the nations police
functions might be turned over to
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