Evening star., 1943-05-14
King Boris Reported
Asking Hitler for
Troops in Crisis
Gestopo Chief Himmler
Said to Be Hurryine
To Sofia After Plea
By the Associated Press.

SoIo 10 De 7urryIn9
To Sofia After Plea
By the Associated Press.
LONDON, May fixing Boris
Of Bulgaria has sent an urgent
appeal to Adolf Hitler for addi-
tional secret police units as pro-
lection against internal dis
turbances, reports reaching Al
lied governments said today.
These advlces said it was under
stood that the Gestapo chief him.
self, Heinrich Himmler, was hurry
ing to Sofia.
There was no information, how
ever. on whether concerted out
breaks had occurred.
Meanwhile, indications that trouble
might De brewing In France were
seen in reports of recent Gestapo
roundup of 200 members of the
Vichy government said to have been
suspected of communicating with
French resistance groups or Allied
agents.
1t also was asserted that Grand
Armiral Karl Doenitz, German
naval commander in chief, had
moved his headquarters from Paris
to Kiel, Germany, because he felt
unsafe in France.
Holland Is Warned.
German-occupied Holland. seeth-
ing with unrest, had warning from
its eXiled government, meanwhile,
that premature revolution would
lead only to crushing German re
taliation before it could grow into
large-scale underground warfare.
The official hint that the time is
not yet ripe for widespread upris-
ings conceded with reports of
spreading violence in both Holland
and Belgium, and a Swedish news
paper reported that rioting had oc-
Cured in Berlin itself.
Radio Orange, mouthpiece of the
exiled Netherlands government,
warned the homeland that a widely
distributed circular urging the Dutch
to register in an underground move
ment ito help the British troops lib
crate your people" is a German plot
ito incite Netherlands violence over
the shortest period possible and to
break it most forcibly so that the
consequent terror regime and the
German plans may be executed
without further disturbance.
Warned of Hitler Trick.
The broadcast, warning of one of
Hitler's oldest tricks of divide and
conquer. was reported by Aneta, Off
cial Dutch news agency.
Resistance is only good if it is
carried out in concert" the an
nouncer said. The Germans are de-
liberately provoking the Netherlands
people"
OF the circulars statement that
the time of liberation approaches,
the announcer said:
That is possible" but he went on
to warn that its appeal to the Dutch
to volunteer and register for train
ing was "a pure transparent provo
cation, a means for getting the Ger
man hands on good able
Netherlanders."
The reports of spreading violence
IN Holland and Belgium came from
sources with close links to the Allied
governments, but without official
confirmation.
Situation Tense in Holland.
However, Aneta said the situation
had reached its tensest point in the
three years of German occupation
and might erupt momentarily."
Increasing attacks on vital rail
arteries for Axis troops and supplies
we're reported in Belgium and Hol-
land, and Russian domestic broad
cast said mass strikes are taking
place in Holland in protest against
the Nazi order that all former Meth
erlands soldiers must go into con-
centration camps. The Netherlands
outbreaks came only a day after the
Dutch government in exile had
urged the former servicemen to defy
the Germent internment orders, and
Radio Oranges warning may have
been an attempt to temper resulting
violence.
In Norway, increasing resentment
against forced labor has reached the
breaking point, the Stockholm radio
said. and added that passive resist
ance is turning into active counter
measures"
The Berlin rioting episode was re-
ported in Reuters dispatch from
Stockholm which was based on an
account sent from the German cap
itai by the correspondent of the
.Goteborg (SUeden Handelstidnin-
gen.
It said thousands of men and
women gathered outside the inform
alton office to learn the fate of their
sons in North Africa. When they
were brusquelv turned away, it went
on, the crowd began rioting, and
SIS Elite Guards broke up the crowd
without resort to arms.
; Meanwhile, Germany continued
her widespread defensive prepara-
tions.
: Travellers reaching Turkey said
groups of German officers may be
seen all over Bulgaria re-examining
gasoline and supply dumps, inspect
ing roads, airports and communica-
tion systems as if preparing the
country as a strong point for the
defense of the Balkans
Reports reaching Istanbul said all
the Balkans are in seething state
OF unrest
German planes flew over Athens
on May S, the reports said, and
dropped leaflets warning the popu-
lace against having any illusions"
about the possibility of Allied land
-ings. The leaflets said the Germans
would defend Greece house by
house and step by step" and de-
clared that no Allied invasion
could succeed. They threatened
death to any one caught aiding
Greek guerrillas.
Allied military leaders appeared to
be enjoying this war of nerves, the
latest of Hitler,s war inventions to
backfire.
Let EN- guess what's coming.
and the more gueSSeS the better"