GERMAN CONCENTRATIONS AT BALTIC PORTS
SOMBRE SWEDISH FORECASTS
MYSTERY SURROUNDS DESTINY OF TROOP-LADEN TRANSPORTS
■By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) Received April 25, 9.5 p.m. LONDON, April 25. The Daily TelegTaph s Paris correspondent says that German concentrations at Baltic ports and aerial activity over Sweden are producing sombre forecasts regarding Sweden's destiny. Troops arc reported to be concentrated on Bornholm Island, in the Baltic, at Memel, Konigsberg, Danzig and Stettin, from which transports laden with German detachments have sailed during the last few days. Nothing has since been heard of them, but the presence of icebreakers leads to the assumption that one of the German objectives may be the Aaland Islands, at the entrance to the Gulf of Bothnia. Forty German planes daily are seen over Sweden. The Germans claim that this is accidental. A German trade delegation has arrived at Stockholm. Sweden is floating a £30.000,000 defence loan. The Swedish Parliament has passed a compulsory military service law applying to all citizens between 16 and 60, to operate when necessary.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 84, Issue 96, 26 April 1940, Page 5
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