Evening star., 1945-05-06
Other Reports Say
Germans Will Give
Up Country Soon
By the Associated Press.

LONDON, May 5.-Norway's
puppet ruler, Maj. Vidkun Quis-
ling, declared in an Oslo broad
cast tonight that "all attacks
from the outside will be re-
sisted" and called on Norwei-
gians to obey his government
until it is replaced"
Such obedience, he said, would
avert civil war and other kinds of
warfare" AS quoted by the Swedish
news agency, Quisling said the Ger
mans had no plans for surrender
ing Norway.
Meanwhile, the Stockholm news
paper Aftonbladet published a who'll
ly unconfrmed report that the Nazis
fugitive Fuehrer, Admiral Doenitz,
had arrived in Oslo as we'll as
Marshal Hermann Goering.
Capitulation Reported Near.
Another Swedish newspaper, Dag
ems Nyheter, said in dispatch from
the Swedish-Norwegian border that
German capitulation in Norway was
practically certain" with only a
few technical details left to be ar
ranged.
An unconfirmed report from Oslo
by the German-controlled Scandi-
poyiop To1ooroy,I, p,,rao,, eo;l Nor
wegian capitulation would be an
nounced soon
The Swedish Foreign Office an
nounced officially that it regarded
all reports of imminent capitulation
in Norway as premature
Doenitz himself issued a procla-
nation early today which in effect
acknowledged that the Germans
only were fighting for time. On the
heels of the ceaSe-fire order which
surrendered Holland, Denmark and
Northern Germany, he frankly con-
ceded that the surrender in the
northwest and south had been forced
because the struggle against the
western powers has become sense
less"
100000 Nazis in Norway.
In his proclamation, read over the
Flensburg radio. Doenitz contented
himself with urging the troops on
the Russian front to battle on ito
save as many Germans as possible
from BolSheviZation and enslaye-
ment."
Norwegian government sources in
London estimated German strength
in Norway at 100000 men, all of
what is left of Germany's navy, in
cluding 200 to 300 submarines, and
between 300 and 400 planes, mostly
fighters.
From the Moscow radio came a
claim that German officials in Nor
way and their families were evacu-
ating the Norwegian capital and
retiring to the town of Lillehammer,
IS miles to the north and a base
for long range planes which are
kept constantly in readiness"
Official Norwegian quarters in
Stockholm expressed optimism that
the capitulation of the Germans in
Norway still was a good prospect
but they held that it might require
several days or perhaps weeks to
arrange.
Terboven Back in Norway.
An Oslo dispatch saying that
Josef Terboven, German occupation
commander in Norway was believed
to have returned to the capital
last night from a conference with
German leaders, together with a
Paris radio report that Terboven
offered unconditional surrender to
the Allies, lacked confirma ton in
these quarters.
The official view has been all
along that the only person in posi-
ton to surrender Norway was
Wehrmacht Commander Boehme.
If Doenitz is in Norway he would
become responsible commander for
surrendering the Germans there as
grand admiral and fuehrer. He
was last known to be in Copen-
hagen, where he could not remain
unless he wished to be taken by
Allied troops.
The Norwegian Stockholm sources
said there was nothing unusual
about reports of German transports
moving toward Norway, but ex-
pressed the belief there were no
large numbers of troops leaving Den
mark northWard.
These sources suggested that Ges-
tapo men, Elite Guards and fanati-
cal Nazis before capitulating would
try to get as far as possible from
the scenes of their crimes to place
where your accusers can't walk up
and point you out"