Trade Relations With Germany Broken Off
SWEDEN TAKES ACTION AT LAST Received Friday, 11 p.m. SWEDEN, Feb. 16. Sweden has de facto broken off trade relations with Germany, says the Daily Telegraph’s Stockholm correspondent. It is learned authoritatively that Sweden will not renew the trade agreement which expired on January 1 and all trade between Sweden and Germany has actually been at a standstill since that date. On the basis of the expired agreement, Germany annually will lose 7,000,000 tons of iron ore, 80,000 tons of paper and 200,000 tons of woodpulp and timber worth £4,250,000. Five prominent members of the German Legation in Stockholm have been asked to leave, because they were discovered ferreting out the names of Norwegian refugees in Sweden on behalf of the Gestapo, so that reprisals could be taken against the families. The expulsion is part of the new drive to purge the country of German spies who, under cover of diplomatic privilege, have organised an espionage system from one end of the country to the other. The newspapers to-day declared that the Allies should not only be given free passage over Sweden for bombers, but also be allowed the use of Malmo an intermediary landing ground, %
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Manawatu Times, Volume 70, Issue 41, 17 February 1945, Page 5
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