Evening star., 1942-09-26

Deoth Toll Put at Four;
QuisIing Denounees
British Attack
b the Associated Press.
LONDON. Sept. 26.-Striking at q
moment OF rising Axis dissension in
Norway and violent new anti-Ger-
man outbreaks in Oslo, the Raj
made a daring daylight assault on
Nazi headquarters in the Norwegian
capital yesterday and sent the fol-
lowers Of Vidkun Quisling's puppet
regime scurrying to cover from
nearby rally
Four raiding British bombers
swept IN low and dropped their
bombs from about 100 feet altitude
to score hits on Gestapo buildings,
the Air Ministry announced. One
British plane was lost and the Air
Ministry said tartly that German
allegations that three of the at
tacking bombers were shot down
confirms the effects of the attack"
Quisling, who had summoned
members OF his National Socialist
party to the rally in Norway in an
effort to quell discomfort, denounced
the raid in an address before his
followers today as one by 'RAF
murder planes"
Four Killed in Raid,
Quisling announced the raid cas-
ualties at dead and 40 injured.
He asked the rally for approval to
bury the dead at state expense. A
number of houses were damaged, it
was reported.
Stockholm dispatches reported
that another flight of Is planes, be-
lieved to be British, swept Thursday
night across the Swedish west coast,
which might well be in the region
southeast of Oslo.
The Germans, who have shown
increasing nervousness at develop
ments in Scandinavia, Immediately
pounced on this incident to broad
cast TRADE against what it called
"the latest violation of Swedish
neutrality by British bombers." The
Swedes themselves were verbally at
tackled last week by the Germans
following town elections in which
the Communists showed gains and
Swedish Nazis lost the last one of
their five seats out of the country's
several hundred.
Exchange Telegraph, British news
agency, said in Stockholm dis
patch that Swedish nti-aircraft
batteries were believed to have hit
one of the planes engaged in Thurs
day nights operations nd that a
protest over their appearance would
be made to Britain.
Connection Not Clear.
The connection between this &C
ton and the small-scale raid on
Oslo, the first on the Norwegian cap
ital since September 6, 1941, was not
clear, but the British recently have
been engaged in spreading aerial
mine-sowing campaign in German
shipping lines. A Vichy broadcast
today quoted Stockholm advices as
saying two ships had struck mines
laid by British planes" off Sweden's S
Baltic coast in the last "a hours.
One thing was clear, though, and
that was that the Germans were
finding themselves in deeper hot wa
ter in Norway.
With that stratesically located
Scandinavian country commanding
heightened attention from both the
British and the Germans. Official
Norwegian sources said IN London
that Quisling's party was 50 badly
split that Gen. Nikolaus Won Falken-
horst, Nazi occupation commander,
had asked Hitler to dismiss Quis-
ling and fully "Germanize" Norway.
The Quislings were reported split
internally as well as snubbed by
Norwegian labor and industry.
Quisling Plan Rejected.
Norwegian industrial associations
| followed the labor lead, these sources
said, in overwhelmingly rejecting
Quisling's plan for a cooperative
Parliament based on the Fascist
| order.
Even while the Quislings were
meeting over the week end continu-
| ing outbreaks were reported in Oslo
The Norwegian telegraphic agency
said patriots broke into buildings of
the Bislep sports stadium where the
Quisling party was forming for a
parade and SMASHED standards, then
made bon fire from stocks of the
Quisling newspaper Fritt Folk.
Stadium buildings were reported
damaged by fire and a number OF
arrests were made.
"The Norwegian capital is in q
virtual state of emergency" the
news agency said. patriots are dis
tributing pamphlets in the streets
advising the population to boycott
the Quisling youth organization ano
there were numerous fights"
Weather Curtails Activity.
While weather curtailed activity
over the continent last night, Brit
ish planes attacked enemy shipping
near the Dutch coast and in Dover
Straits near the French coast, hit
ting one vessel and causing coasta
ship to ground.
A few German planes appeared
over the southwest coast of Britain
during the night, but an authorita-
tive statement, acknowledging some
damage" said only small number
OF casualties were reported.
Raj fighters intercepted a grour
OF German planes in midchanne
today and forced the Germans tc
dump their bombs in the sea ano