The Archive · 1940

British Warships Off Petsamo

Stockholm, Mar. 11

The "Aftonbladet" Kirkens correspondent said today that a British aircraft carried and two British destroyers were off Petsamo on the Russo-Finnish border in the north.—

United Press.

Swedes Say Red Terms Unrevealed Stockholm, Mar. 11.

Prospects of a peace settlement being reached between Russia and Finland within the next 24 hours or less appear here this afternoon to be very likely.

The Finnish Legation however, denies that the Soviet peace proposals have already been accepted.

It is understood here that definite news of the Russo-Finnish peace negotiations may be expected either tonight or tomorrow.

Neither the Finnish nor the Swedish people have yet been told the details of the reported peace terms between Finland and Russia, according to a statement made here.

Recently, however, the newspaper "Dagens Nyheter" gave utterance to the private feeling of many Swedish people when it wrote: "Peace at any price is an empty thing. ]f Finland is defeated, we shall have our turn. If defeat does not come to us in the US. Criticized on

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