Evening star., 1945-05-06
British in Copenhagen
As Danes and Ndzis
Battle in Streets
B. the Associated Press.

derous cheers from happy Danes
mixed with sporadic rifle fire from
q small nest of over-excited Ger
mans awaiting surrender.
German troops fired on the Brit
ish and Danish patriot forces after
the, latter had fired their rifles into
the air to celebrate the arrival of
the British. The Germans appar-
emily thought they were being at
tackled
An undetermined number of per-
sons were killed and wounded in a
half-hour skirmish in City Hall
Square before order was restored.
Eighteen transport planes, circling
Copenhagen before landing air.
borne troops, touched off a wild
celebration.
COllabOrators Hunted.
Battles were occurring, not only
IN Copenhagen, but in provincial
towns as Danes staged great man
hunt for collaborators
Scores of persons have been killed
and 1000 suspected Danish Nazis
were jailed as the patriots settled
occupation grudges amid violent
street fighting.
Fierce, sporadic clashes between
Freedom fighters and Danish NaZis
who fired in crowds cheering the
king before the royal palace, con-
tinued into the night after German
warships in Copenhagen's free har-
Dor opened fire with machine guns
and antiaircraft guns on several
sections of the city this morning.
Fanatical Nazi soldiers, who in
some cases were battling German
Army regulars, still We're holding out
in the capital with the aid of Hipo
men the Danish NaZis), but the
British entry into Copenhagen was
expected to end this resistance
swiftly.
Penal Code Changed.
The Government planned hasty
changes in the penal law which
would legalize the death penalty
for persons accused of serving the
Nazis or acting as informers.
Reports from various parts of
Denmark said disturbances had
taken place as the British moved
in and gunfire was exchanged.
Shortly before the first British
troops crossed the Danish border
at KruSaa at 1:20 pm. Danish
time, the former "fuehrer' of the
Danish Nazi party, Fritz Clausen
accompanied by several of his fol-
lowers, fed into German territory in
stolen cars, presumably to escape
the vengeance of patriots.
The first fighting in Copen-
hagen apparently broke out when
patriots tried to halt a car loaded
with Hippo men, Copenhagen
dispatches to the Swedish news
paper Dagens Nyheter in Malmoe
Said.D
Early in the morning German
warships, believed to have been the
cuisers Prinz Eugen and Nuernburg.
fired on the city and many persons
were reported killed or wounded
Sailors aboard the cruisers were re-
ported to have resisted patriot eff
forts to disarm them.
Hater Swedish newspaper re-
ports said the remnants of the
German fleet had been OBJ
served leaving Denmark. head
ing through the Great Belt evi-
IDENTIFY for Norwegian portsJ
Shooting in Barracks.
Violent shooting which broke out
in one of Copenhagen German
barracks during the morning proved
to be an incident in which Wehr-
macht soldiers were settling mat
ters with Nazi SIS troops.
The Wehrmacht men were said
to have been aided by Danish Free
dom fighters but few blocks away
Danish Nazi auxiliary police and
German sailors joined hands in
clash with Freedom fighters in
which several dead were carried off
Shrapnel from the guns of Ger
mans, who turned their artillery
against the patriots. fell in the Office
of the Kings court marshal and
one of the palace roofs was dam
aged.
King Christian himself, in a radio
talk to the Danish people, expressed
JOY that the Oppressive years of
German occupation are over and
that I'VE are once again able to raise
our ancient flag
King Addresses Nation.
While the King thanked the Lead
ers OF the Freedom movement, Will
helm Buehl. the new Danish Pre-
mier, also went to the microphone,
promised to take action against col
laboratorS. urged order and with
deep thankfulnesS' paid tribute to
the victorious powers, to the United
States, the Soviet Union and Great
Britain 8 that have now given
Denmark back her independence
There were waves of arrests all
over Denmark. In every provincial
town Freedom fighters have been
out all night and day with their
lists" and appear to have gotten a
big bag of informers and collabo-
rators. In Aabenraa they seized the
lCduCl o1 VIC NCli lIllliol1ls AL
Northern Slesvig, Dr. Jens Moeller,
who was taken trembling and crying.
DR.. Werner Best, the Reich's rep
resentative in Denmark, in Copen-
hagen has placed himself in the GUS
today of the Danish Freedom Coun-
Gil.
While the Nazi paper, "Fadere-
landet," ceased publication today,
other Copenhagen newspaper pub
lished a full list of 112 Danes exc
cuted by the Germans during the
occupation. (Reports reaching Lon
don said the "Faderelandet" build
ing has been wrecked in an explo-
sionD
Members of the japanese diplo-
matte staff from Berlin who
reached Copenhagen several days
ago also have been arrested by pa
triotS and interned.
Mortar Board initiates
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