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...Wednesday, out of the Kattegat steamed a second Nazi armada carrying troops and supplies. It was attacked by Allied ships in a fight lasting far into the night, along the Swedish coast from Goteborg to Stromstad. This time the Allies did their stuff. Swedes reported four Nazi cruisers were sunk and eight out of ten transports sent down or ashore. The sea was filled with dead, dying, drowning soldiers. Nevertheless, one German troopship managed to slip through to Oslo. All this fighting was apparently done by submarines and destroyers. Larger Allied ships were not risked close...
...other hand, the Swedish General Staff was known to favor armed intervention now rather than wait for the Red Army to reach Sweden's frontiers. Although the Swedish press is generally well controlled by the Government, the Handels-och Sjofartstidning of Goteborg spoke up sharply...
...advisers and to plan for possible future collaboration, 2,000 Italian military experts, a body of French engineers, a British mission were at work. The British were said to be at Goteborg, Sweden, to examine the chances of landing British troops in Sweden via the Skaggerak...
...antarctic whalers were nosing up the fjords to Oslo; Norwegian fishermen were pushing out in their eight-oared boats after mackerel; hay was springing up in the valleys that lie in bright green patches between the mountains. This week in Sweden the ten-day fair opened in Goteborg; the Swedish Parliament celebrated its 504th anniversary; preparations were under way for midsummer eve on June 23, when there is no night in Sweden and the people dance around the maypoles. In England last week 500,000 people saw Blue Peter win the Derby; cars were leaving London at the rate...
Gordon McKay fellowships tool E. H. Rydbeck of Goteborg, Sweden; and William M. Bauer G. E. S. of Cambridge...