SHOT DOWN
SWEDISH TRANSPORT PLANE THIRTEEN PERSONS KILLED (Rec. 9 p.m.) STOCKHOLM, Oct. 23. Thirteen persons were killed when a Swedish transport plane,. en route to Stockholm from England, crashed last night on the west coast of Sweden. The plane had previously radioed: “ We are forced to make an emergency landing. We have been shot down.” The machine crashed in flames at Haallce, 53 miles north of Gothenburg. Six Russians are believed to have been among the passengers. It is presumed that a German fighter destroyed the plane. Following the disaster Sweden suspended air traffic between Sweden and Britain, pending talks between the two Governments.
An official Swedish report stated that the plane was shot down over Swedish territorial waters. It attempted to alight on the sea, and crashed into a rock and caught fire. The passengers included Dr T. C. Hume, an American clergyman, and the wives of the Soviet naval attache and assistant naval attache at Stockholm, who were each accompanied by two children. Another Swedish transport plane was similarly shot down about two months ago. Public opinion in Sweden is raging against the shooting down of the airliner, according to the Swedish press. The newspaper Allehanda demands that the Government should ban German courier traffic through Sweden until satisfaction is given.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25365, 25 October 1943, Page 3
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214SHOT DOWN Otago Daily Times, Issue 25365, 25 October 1943, Page 3
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