ESCORT CRAFT
OBTAINED BY GERMANY FROM SWEDEN. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, June 7. A Swedish sailor told the Stockholm newspaper “Arbetaren” that Germany is using Swedish-built motor-barges for escort duty. The paper publishes a photograph of one flying the Nazi flag, and it adds that Sweden is making 41 of these barges for Germany.
It is recalled in London that 'when Britain recently protested against Sweden building these ships for Germany the Swedish Foreign Office claimed that they were fishing vessels and were not suitable for military purposes.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19430610.2.59
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 June 1943, Page 4
Word count
Tapeke kupu
88ESCORT CRAFT Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 June 1943, Page 4
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Times-Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in