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...from the scene of battle but that if they are repeated long enough they generally prove to have substance; that in Sweden, as elsewhere, the worst published misstatements have resulted from laymen leaping to false conclusions about military situations. (Example: that a major naval battle took place in the Skagerrak because heavy explosions-probably depth charges, air bombings etc.-were heard on the shore...
...Allies succeed in pushing back the German Army in Norway and disrupting its communications across the Skagerrak, Germany will have urgent military need to send supplies and support through Sweden. Conversely, the Allies, if they succeed in taking Narvik, might be tempted to seize the Swedish iron-ore mines at Kiruna and Gällivare. Sweden did not think this likely but fear of it might give Germany another motive for invasion...
...this work mine-laying destroyers (including the three escaped Polish vessels) were used, with mine-laying submarines and planes to push into the farthest reaches. Leaving a path 20 miles wide for neutral Sweden, the Allies said they mined also the northern half of the Skagerrak, up into Oslo Fjord. For an added fillip they said their mines were of a new type against which there was no known defense. Used in these operations undoubtedly were plenty of France's big submarines which can lay 150 mines per trip. Somewhere along the line the British Spearfish took a crack...
...function of locking out from home what was left of the German Navy, locking in further supply ships, and lightening the blockaders' sea-patrol task. By sowing so wide an area, even if sketchily, they would make arduous work for Nazi minesweepers, already working overtime to clear the Skagerrak and Kattegat. Nevertheless, nine more Nazi troopships made landings inside Fredrikstad before the week's end. A lot of noise at sea Thursday and Friday which observers took for heavy fighting was doubtless German countermining, i.e., firing depth charges to explode mines which, if laid too close together...
From the shores of the Skagerrak Swedes heard terrific explosions-depth charges, torpedoings, air bombings. Rumor fathered a mythical sea fight in the Skagerrak between battle fleets...