NAZI REINFORCEMENTS.
REPORTED OFF SWEDEN. NAVAL BATTLE POSSIBLE. LONDON, April 22. Reports from Gothenburg (Sweden) indicate that there was a naval battle in the Skagerrak and Kattegat last night. Heavy gunfire was heard. Seven ships, believed to lmvc been mine-sweepers, were seen earlier apparently sweeping a lane through tbc British minefields with escort ’planes, after which two destroyers and one large and several small merchantmen appeared from the south, steaming toward Norway. , Gothenburg reports that a fleet of 20 German transports and four destroyers was observed off the coast near there at 10 o’clock last night.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 123, 23 April 1940, Page 7
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96NAZI REINFORCEMENTS. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 123, 23 April 1940, Page 7
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