GERMAN PLANES

Grey River Argus, 5 April 1943, Page 4

GERMAN PLANES

.GIVEN FACILITIES IN SWEDEN. .(Rec. 8.30.) LONDON, April 3. Reuter’s Stockholm correspondent says that existence of a secret order at p Swedish airfield authorising German military planes after a forced landing to continue their flight is disclosed by the Swedish trade unionist newspaper “Arbetaren.” The instruction which is not signed, states other foreign planes must be prevented from taking off and the crews closely guarded The paper was unable to trace the origin o£ the order, but demanded that the Minister of Defence should disclose the responsibility for, it. i The Swedish Foreign Office states tha£ an investigation has been begun. The' first results showed that the Central Military Authority had not issued an, order, and adds that there is no case of a German plane landing and continuing its journey. The correspondent says that the Swedish public is already impatient at uncontrolled German flights over Sweden, in which so-called couriers may carry whatever they please. The public is even more impatient regarding German “leave traffic,” which newspapers assert, amounts to twenty train loads of troops from Norway weekly. It is also disclosed that German travel between Norway and Finland has been facilitated.