Last week Vidkun Quisling was interrupted at his business of forcing Adolf Hitler's "new order" on winter-chilled Norway. Suddenly there were terrible reverberations in the western mountains, and whole mountainsides, loosened by rain and snow, roared down into the valleys. Masses of mud and rock clogged roads and highways, smashed houses and bridges, snapped telephone poles, blocked the vital Oslo-Bergen railway at ten different places.
Certain papers stated that the ruinous slides had been caused by cloudbursts. But the Stockholm Dagens Nyheter suggested that the wet looseness of the mountain earth had made it easy to send it tumbling with small dynamite...
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