BATTLE AT SEAT
SWEDISH REPORT
GERMANS SWEEPING MINES
(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.)
April 22
Reports from Gothenburg (Sweden) indicate that there was a naval battle in the Skagerrak and the Kattegat last night. Heavy gunfire was heard.
Seven ships, .believed to be minesweepers, were seen earlier apparently sweeping a lane through the British minefields with escort planes, after which two destroyers - and one large and several small merchantmen .appeared from the south, steaming ' towards Norway.
(Received April 23^? noon.)
LONDON, April 22.
A fleet of 20 German transports and four destroyers was observed off the coast near Gothenburg at 10 o'clock last night., . ■ •
A message from Stockholm says that people on the west coast "of Sweden report that the Germans are carefully sweeping the minefields along the coast.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 96, 23 April 1940, Page 10
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