GUNFIRE AT SEA
SWEDES REPORT NAVAL BATTLE MINEFIELD OPERATIONS. IN SKAGGERAK AND KATTEGAT. LONDON. April 22. Reports from Gothenburg (Sweden) indicate that there was a naval battle in the Skaggerak and Kattegat last night. Heavy gunfire was heard. Seven ships, believed to have been mine-sweepers, were seen earlier apparently sweeping a lane through the British minefields with escort planes, after which two destroyers and one large and several small merchantmen appeared from the south, steaming toward Norway. AMERICAN ATTACHE KILLED BY GERMANS IN NORWAY (Received This Day, 9.35 a.m.) WASHINGTON. April 22. Captain Robert Losey, an American air attache, was killed in a German air raid in Norway. He was the United States Army’s leading aeronautical and meteorological expert.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 April 1940, Page 5
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