DANGER ZONES IN BALTIC

Southland Times, Issue 24113, 30 April 1940, Page 5

DANGER ZONES IN BALTIC

Two Minefields In Gulf Of Finland

NAZIS BROADCAST WARNING

(United Press Assn. —Telegraph Copyright)

LONDON, April 29.

The German radio tonight warned all German shipping that the Gulf of Finland was a danger zone and must not be entered.

It was later revealed that the German radio report was a re-quotation of a Tallinn radio warning in similar terms. The Tallinn radio said that the danger zone comprised two large minefields off the Estonian coast. The first zone, 20 miles by eight miles, lies directly outside the port of Baltiski, which Russia leased from Estonia a few months ago. The second zone, 12 miles by six, is situated just eastward of Kolko Bay, nearly opposite Helsinki. According to the Tallinn correspondent of the Swedish newspaper Afton Bladet, it is reported in the Baltic countries that the Soviet has made a demarche to Berlin concerning Sweden’s neutrality. PRACTICAL AID FROM NEWFOUNDLAND MANY MEN SERVING IN FORCES (British Official Wireless) RUGBY, April 28. Referring to the arrival in England last Thursday of fighting forces from Newfoundland, The Observer comments that although it was not relatively a large contingent it was in some way the most significant of any. Newfoundland, though the oldest, was the smallest and poorest of the Dominions with a population of under 300,000 and had a hard climate and infertile soil. “Had they said their own troubles were enough to cope with and professed only academic sympathy with thi Allies, who could have wondered?” asks The Observer. “But what do we find? Fewer in numbers than the inhabitants, of Lambeth or Islington, the Newfoundlanders have claimed a place in every department of war. Thousands are enrolled in the Navy, some have won distinction in the Air Force and the men who arrived on Thursday will form an artillery unit of their own. “Other thousands engaged m logging in British woodlands complain only that they are not allowed to substitute service in arms for employment in which their technical skill is so invaluable. None of these men is serving the Allied cause for any reason but his own choice. Individuals were under no compulsion to come, as their Government told them. They are here because they feel the battle is for liberty, that the Empire is embarked on a glorious enterprise and that the honour and satisfaction of sharing it is due to themselves.” BRITISH BANNEDJBY SWEDES “REPRESENTATIONS OF FOREIGN POWER” STOCKHOLM, April 27. “Upon the representations of a foreign Power” the Swedish Government has banned a news-sheet widely circulated since the outbreak of war through the British Legation at the instance of the British Ministry of Information. The police seized the latest copies containing Mr Winston Churchill’s reference to “cleansing the soil of the Vikings from the filthy pollution of Nazi tyranny and also pictures of scarred and ruined villages in Norway.