SWEDISH REPORTS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 April 1940, Page 6

SWEDISH REPORTS

; MANY GERMAN BODIES BROUGHT ASHORE FROM SCENE OF NAVAL BATTLE. CRUISER EMDEN REPORTED SUNK. (Received This Day, 1.20 p.m.) LONDON, April 11. The Stockholm radio states that throe persons were killed and many taken to hospital after an air battle ever Oslo. Two planes dropped bombs in the outskirts of the city. It is added that many small fishing vessels near Goteborg are busy picking up bodies from German transports presumably sunk. Many British and Gorman pianos have flown over the Swedish town of Stromsiad, near the coast, between the Norwegian frontier and the Skagerrak. Stromstad is blacked cut. Norwegian refugees are continually arriving. It is stated that the German cruiser Emden was sunk yesterday. Many bodies of German sailors are already floating'ashore near the scene of flip Skagerrak ba lite.

LOW COUNTRIES UNEASY VARIOUS PRECAUTIONS TAKEN. DENTAL OF MOBILISATION IN BELGIUM. (Received Tins Dav, 1.25 p.m.) LONDON April 10. Reactions in the Low Countries include the closing of vital Dutch bridges and. roads. No leave is being granted in the Belgian Army. The Belgian Ministry of National Defence .denies that there is any question of general mobilisation. It is reported from Luxembourg that the Germans continue Io build embarkation quays along the Moselle.

GERMANS AT NARVIK ! STORY OF LONG JOURNEY. FORCE ESTIMATED AT OVER TWO 'THOUSAND. (Received This-Day. 1.25 p.m.) LONDON, April 10. "The Times” Stockholm correspondent says German soldiers told the people of Narvik' they had been on the way two to three days. The German force at Narvik is estimated at more than two thousand.