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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 254, 24 July 1944, Page 4

A further tle.inonsfrntion of the daring and resolute spirit niiiinliiiug British merchant seamen is provided by the disclosure that litllo. highspeed ships of the British Alorchant Navy, manned by youthful crews, have opened up trade with Sweden in 'spite of tbe Gorman blockade. One of the stralegic advantages gained by the enemy when he occupied Denmark was the control of the entrance to the Baltic Sea—that inverted V of walers, the arms of which aro named respectively the Sktigei’i’tik and the Kattegat. The Skagerrtik, which lies between the coasts of Gcrinanoceiipicd Denmark and’Gcriiian-occupiod Norway, is nowhere much more than SO. and at. its narrowest point little more Hum 70. miles wide. To reach even the handiest Swedish ports ships must pass through this narrow lane, some 200 miles long, from the <>l>en area of the North Son. The risk must be enormous, vol for more than a year past, cat.-ots and passengers have been taken to and fro, seemingly will) very small loss. No doubt when tbe full story of this enterprise can lie told it will become a chapter in the history of the British effort at sea ranking highly with the magnificent episodes of “the little ships” at Dunkirk, in Norwegian waters, in the Mediterranean and in the North Sea.