BRITISH BALLOONS.
ADRIFT OVER CONTINENT. (Rec. 1.35 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 18. The Times Stockholm correspondent says dozens of British barrage balloons drifted over Southern ajul Western Sweden yesterday, trailing steel cables and damaging electricity supply land other communications. The balloons drifted 300 miles acrcss Sweden. Planes, anti-aircraft guns and the Home Guard attempted to bring down the balloons and were occasionally successful. An electric train service in Western Sweden was interrupted by the balloons. The trams at Gothenburg were halted and several southern Swedish communities were blacked out. Forty balloons were reported over Denmark where there was much damage. Power was cut off in the whole of South Jutland. One balloon was over Helsinki. It is officially stated in Berlin that German pursuit planes brought down 920 British balloons adrift on the Continent.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 250, 19 September 1940, Page 10
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133BRITISH BALLOONS. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 250, 19 September 1940, Page 10
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