BARRAGE BALLOONS
MANY BREAK ADRIFT OVER SWEDEN AND GERMANY REPORTS OF DAMAGE (United Press Association) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) LONDON. Sept. 18. The Stockholm correspondent of The Times says: Dozens of British barrage balloons drifted over southern and western Sweden yesterday, trailing steel cables and damaging the electricitv supply and Other communications.” The balloons drifted 30 miles across Sweden Planes and anti-air-craft guns of the Home Guard attempted to bring down the balloons, and were occasionally successful. An electric train service in western Sweden was interrupted by balloons, anci trams in Gothemburg halted. Several southern Swedish communities were blacked out. Forty balloons reported "over Denmark, wheie much damage was done and power cut off in the whole of south Jutland. One balloon drifted over Helsinki. • It is officially stated from Berlin that German pursuit planes brought down 920 British balloons adrift on the Continent.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24408, 20 September 1940, Page 6
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