CRASH IN FLAMES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 October 1943, Page 3

CRASH IN FLAMES

WITH LOSS OF THIRTEEN LIVES SWEDISH AIR LINER SHOT DOWN BY GERMAN FIGHTER. , AMERICAN AND RUSSIAN VICTIMS. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) STOCKHOLM, Otober 23. Thirteen persons were killed when a Swedish transport plane en route to Stockholm from England crashed last night on the west coast of Sweden. The plane previously radioed “Forced to make an emergency landing. We have been shot down.” The machine crashed in flames at Haallce, 53 miles north of Gothenburg. Six Russians are believed to have been among the passengers. It is presumed that a German fighter destroyed the plane. Following the disaster Sweden suspending air traffic between Sweden and Britain pending talks between the two governments. The official Swedish report stated that the plane was shot down over Swedish territorial waters. It attempted to alight in the sea, but crashed into a rock and caught fire. The passengers included Dr. T. C. Hume, an American clergyman, and the wives of the Soviet naval attache and assistant naval attache at Stockholm, who were each accompanied by two children. 'Another Swedish transport plane was similarly shot down about two months ago; ANGER IN SWEDEN DEMAND FOR BAN ON NAZI TRAFFIC. LONDON, October 23. Public opinion in Sweden is raging against the shooting down of the Swedish air liner, according to the Swedish Press. The “Allehanda” demands a Government ban on German courier traffic through Sweden till satisfaction is given. Meanwhile the Anglo-Swedish air service has been suspended pending, talks between the Swedish and British governments.