The Archive · 1940

Throughout Sweden

Stockholm, Apr. 16.

The first German-Swedish frontier incident was reported on Monday when two German detachments advanced to a railway bridge as far as the Swedish border, where Swedish police halted the "Nazi troops, the "Dagens Nyheter" reported today. The German forces opened machinegun fire against the Swedish police, who were unhurt, it was reported. Swedish soldiers rushed to aid the frontier police, shouting in German, "Are you warring with Sweden?" The German troops were reported to have immediately ceased firing and apologized to the Swedish police.

The spokesman for the Norwegian Legation here last night said the Legation had been all day without any reliable news from the Norwegian war front. "We are now awaiting details of the result of the reported British landings," he said—United Press.

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