NEUTRALS FEAR GERMAN THRUSTS.
SWEDEN, RUMANIA.
Gothenburg Evacuation
Has Begun.
TENSION IN BALKANS
United Press Association. —Copyright. (Kecrlvod 2 p.m.} LONDON, April 11. Fears of infringement of Swedish neutrality are intensified by tlie possibility of a German demand of right of passage for riiiilorcementa for Norway.
'J'lio Swedish Admiralty, in a statement, said tin- western waters had been mined for T."» mile*. 'Planes and troops are patrolling the whole frontier. Partial evacuation ha-? been bepnn at Gothenburg, outside which anti-uireraft guns shot down an unidentified "plane. Anxiety is also deepening in the Balkans. The Belgrade correspondent of "The Times"' says a German warning that 6he will ignore Kuninninn sovereignty and police the Danube is given in the official declaration to the Berlin correspondent of the Bulgarian newspaper ••Outro."' Authorised German and Rumanian oflicial circles deny any ultimatum. The Rumanian Government has decreed that all factories engaged in defence works must store supplies for Use in the event of general mobilisation.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 87, 12 April 1940, Page 7
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