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...Esbjerg on the Jutland coast, which is a forbidden zone and heavily mined against invasion, the Germans ordered curfew after 10. Organized workers struck, shopkeepers followed their lead, the banks closed and the baking ovens were allowed to cool. Allied flags appeared, waved, vanished and appeared again farther down the street. The Danes kept impassive faces, continued to stare through approaching Germans. After three days the baffled Kommandantur withdrew the curfew...
...reason: martial law was on; the time of German forbearance with Danish "stubbornness" was over; German military courts would deal summarily with offenders. General Hermann von Hanneken, Commander in Chief of German troops in Denmark, made the rules. He announced: 1) gatherings of more than five were prohibited; 2) curfew would begin at sundown; 3) use of telephones, telegraphs and mails were prohibited; 4) strikes were prohibited; 5) troops would fire on offenders without further warning...
Many was the tear shed by 18 pairs of eyes into as many if not more bears Thursday evening, before the 2000 curfew...
Most of the current officers of the club are enrolled in the Navy V-12 program, and the club had little difficulty in starting the new year. Several of its affairs, however, have been called off because of Navy curfew...
Bands of Negroes broke windows, looted shops, burned an automobile, beat up two amazed British seamen leaving Harlem's famed Apollo Theater. Twenty-four hours later six Negro rioters were dead, 543 rioters and police injured; a curfew was clamped on Harlem...