The Archive · 1939

Sweden Takes Steps

Stockholm, Oct. 5.

Sweden's territorial waters will be henceforth patrolled by warships in order to put an end to violations by German submarines The patrol fleet will, consist of one capital ship, two destroyers, two sub-and several smaller craft The ce-operation of one hundred adequately armed merchant vessels is being sought by the naval authorities.—Havas.

Newspaper readers are struck by the absence of streamer headlines following talks between Herr Hitler and Count Galeazzo Ciano, the Italian Foreign Minister, and have drawn the conclusion that whatever proposals were set forth in Berlin, they were not such that Italy could make them wholly her own.—Reuter.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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