Paris, Apr. 11
There is no foundation for reports circulated by German Radio French battleship Dunkerque cruiser Foch were sunk in the North Sea, the French Admiralty announced The Dunkerque, displacing 26,500 fons, is one of the newest. in the: French and "among the speediest the world. She mounts main armament of eight 13- inch guns in quadrupe turrets. The cruiser Foch displaces 0,938 tons, was launched in 1929, has a top speed of 33 knots and carries main armament eight 8-inch guns, 'The Premier, Mf Paul Reynaud, today received' M, Rene Macsi French Ambassador to Turkey, and General Maxime Weygand, commander of the French Near 'Eastern forces who was erroneously reported fo have lett for Beirut on Tuesday. French Army leave was temporarily' suspended today.—Havas, Remarkable scene in London when officers and RAP. Bomb Nazi Warships and Transports London, Apr. 12. major engagement has taken place in the Kattegat today, it fs stated fu authoritative circles in London this afternoon. Reports circulated about explosions may have been from the fuse of depth charges. There Is little Jdoubt that German units have begun searching for submarines which may have been in that area The Admiralty announces that a certain area in the North Seo, the Skager "Rak and the Katlegat is dangerous" owing to ines, It touches the Danish and German coasts and Swedish and Dutch tarrie torial waters, No mines, the ana ouncement adds, will be Laid in a channel extending ten miles either side of certain points The new mine-field in the Skager Rak and Kattegat cuts German com= munications to the North Sea through the Skager Rak. Nazi shipping is now Imengeed both direct across the Skager Tak to Oslo Fjord, and to the forts they occupied in south-western Nor Swedish, Dutch Waters Missed In view of German comments and subsequent events following the Allied mining of Norwegian waters, importance is "attached to. the faci this mine-feld does not enter Swedish or "Dutch territorial. waters at any point. Also, a 20-mile wide channel has been left approximately in the middle of the mine-feld, giving neutral shipping from the Swedish coast free access to the unmined portion of the North Sea, The westernmost limit of the area affected by mines extends 420 miles northwards of Fieom, s point off the Dutch coast near Schilling, miles southwest of Bergen. The mine-field then spreads eastwards embracing the whole North Sea up to the Danish coast, including the Skager Rak Ra
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