Stockholm, Apr, 8. NOviticiat announcement has yet been made regarding the Allies action in mining Norwegian territorial waters, but Swedish official circles consider it a flagrant violation of neutrality, which cannot be too strictly condemned. The main topic in newspapers continues to be speculation on the nature of Britain's Notes, Well-informed circles believe they constitute a warning to Scandinavia not to submit to German threats.
The "Stockholms-Tidningen" says the Notes are the first move in an Allied spring offensive extending also to the Balkans.
The Swedish Minister of Defence has meanwhile announced a tightening up of Sweden's neutrality guard as a result of the present situation—Reuter,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.