ALL PORTS CLOSED
IN SOUTHERN & WESTERN SWEDEN FIRE OPENED ON INTRUDING PLANES. ONE MACHINE SHOT DOWN. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 12.50 p.m.) LONDON, April 16. The Swedish radio, which was intermittently jammed, announced that all ports of southern and western Sweden are closed to foreign shipping, except Gothenburg, the entrance to which is forbidden without a. special permit. While air raid precaution measures are extending throughout Sweden, alarms have been sounded in several towns. Coastal batteries and warships fired on two planes believed to be German. One made a forced landing on an island opposite Gothenburg.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 April 1940, Page 6
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98ALL PORTS CLOSED Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 April 1940, Page 6
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