Stockholm, June 17, Extensive calling up of Swedish reserves was still progressing yesterday throughout Sweden, a semiofficial source disclosed to the United Press, A German plane yesterday flew over the south coast province of Shane but left after Swedish neutrality guards fired on it, According to a. report from Helsinki many football matches and other sports events planned in Finland this week have been cancelled, The cancellation was taken as a sign of public unrest, The Swedish press and radio generally scrupulously refrained from g on the flood of reports concerning Russo-German tension but the c was most excited. Speculation centred particularly on the. possibility of war embroiling Finland and rendering Sweden's neutrality, most precarious, Symptomatic of the general feeling Gt disquiet and. fear for the future were the crowds which gathered in front. of newspapers and eagerly scanned news bulletins, Similar groups gathered in cafes and other places and excitedly discussed the general situation,—United Press, the naval shelling and compelled to retreat in disorder, he added.
In Syria, RAF. bombers carried out raids on the aerodrome at: Aleppo and dropped bombs among dispersed aircraft and on runways, starting a number of fires, stated an RAF. communique issued last night, Hostile fighters which attempted to intercept, were attacked and damaged.
ighters operaing over British troops in the Kiswe area drove off a formation of Vichy fighters and destroyed two of them. Fighter air-Force, while they were machine-craft of the Royal Australian Air
gunning armoured vehicles in the same area, shat down two hostile bombers, Protective patrols were carried out by RAF, fighters over British naval units off the Syrian coast, Two formations of hostile aircraft were intercepted and a number severely damaged,—Reuter.
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