The Archive · 1940

Third Time

The latest Incident was the third time in four days that German planes have flown over neutral Swedish territory. This was the second flight ai German planes over the Kiruna rea in two day:

On Monday a German seaplane bombed the Swedish railway station at Vassipaure, three miles inside the Swedish frontier near Narvik, Norway.

Semi-official Swedish reports sala that one Swedish civilian was killed in the Vaasipaure bombing. The German plane attacked the railway station's crowded platform and then escaped the fire of Swedish antiaircraft batteries, the report said.

On Wednesday German planes were reported to have been numerous over the villages of Abisco and Stordalen along a 50 mile stretch in the Lake Terne district. German planes also were sighted at Trask near the fame iron mines.

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