Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1945-06-01
King Christian of
Denmark Decorotes
Minister of Sweden

less)-In acknowledgement of the
aid given by Sweden to Denmark
during the war; the Danish King,
Christian x, yesterday bestowed
on the Minister of Sweden in Co
penhagen, G. F. N. Won Dardel,
the Grand Cross of the Dannebrog
with diamands, one of the highest
honors at his disposal. The pre-
sentation was made in the pres
ence of the whole Danish cabinet.
THE Dannebrog is a royal Danish
order instituted in 1911
Danish Underground Fighters
Received Arms From Sweden
Every day new details are
brought out regarding the help re-
ceived from Sweden by the Dan
ish underground movement. Thus
on May 8 Erling Foss, a Danish
underground leader, told a Swed-
ish-Norwegian Association meet
ing in Stockholm that 5000 tommy
guns and two million cartridges
had been received from Sweden.
Later it was revealed that the
transport of weapons to the Dan
ish saboteurs had been organized
! by Cote Friberg, Chief of Police
at Helsingborg in Sweden, situated
less than three miles from the
Danish shore at Elsinore, and that
since June, 1914, at least seventy
tons of ammunition. seven thous-
and tommy guns and five thous-
and hand grenades, as well as
some mortars had been smuggled
into Denmark via various Swedish
ports, chiefly Helsingborg, Malmo
and Gothenburg.
From the very beginning of the
occupation of Denmark contacts
with the Danish underground was
kept up VIA six regular sea lines.
When some of these were blocked
by the Germans, others were OPP
+ ened Swedish and Danish boats
as we'll as some fast British mo-
i tor-boats would meet at sea and
exchange cargoeS, weapons being
sent to Denmark in return for
Danish refugees to be forwarded
to Sweden. Even severely wound
ed Danish patriots were struggled
into Sweden via the German-con-
trolled boats going to the Danish
island of Bornholm. in the Baltic,
southeast of Sweden. At the in
termediary Swedish ports of call
these Danes were secretly taken
ashore.
News Via Swedish and British
Radios Kept the Danes
Informed
The Danish radio board today
officially thanked the British
Broadcasting Service and the cor
responding Swedish Radiotjanst OF
Stockholm for keeping Danish lis
teners on the illegal radio receiv'
ers informed throughout the war
A secret Swedish station on the
. island of Ven, the former home
of Tycho Brahe, the 10th Centur,
! Danish astronomer, halfway be
. tween Sweden and Denmark, wa!
particularly effective. The under
ground mail service between
Sweden and Denmark at times ex
ceeded in bulk the amounts norm
ally exchanged Every night a
ten minutes past midnight, Polio
Chief Friberg in Helsingborg haC
a letter from the Danish under
5 ground.
l Private Swedish Industries HELPED
I Finance Danish Patriots
4 In his address on May S Erlinl
e Foss. the former Danish under
I ground leader, also revealed tina
5 financial aid had been receive
4 from private sources in Sweder
n among others a sum of 250,00
y Swedish kronor 1852. 5000 receives
2, through forster Hernod, head O
: the Swedish Pulp Company. II
n this transaction, it was later eS
! planned. MIR. H6rnod acted in be
n half of several leading Swedis
/. industriesD
e The Swedish-Norwegian Frontie
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