SWASTIKA SHIPS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 176, 5 November 1941, Page 6

SWASTIKA SHIPS

TAKE ENGLISH ROSES TO

ICELAND

England's national llower, the rose, Avill bloom in treeless Iceland on bushes exported there by British nurserymen. Tliey have been carried in ships of the Iceland Steamship Company, whose hcuseflag bears the original swastika —not the twisted form used by the Nazis, which, say heralds, has a tradition of evil centuries old. Carnation plants grown in Sussex have also gone to Iceland from Britain, as Avell as clothing, boots and shoes, chcmicals, cigars, wireless sets, toothpaste, fishing gear, musical instruments, hair pins, gin, soap, bricks, motor cars, floor polish, and foodstuffs, including thousands of tins of baking powder. Christmas puddings were sent last year, but they did not arrive until January. Iceland imports nearly all general commodities. Inning little manufacturing resources of her own. Before the war, Britain supplied only about '20 per cent of these imports, but now that Iceland is cut off iroin Europe, nearly all her requirements come from Britain. American troops stationed in Iceland will have no excuse for no!" writing home, for recent cargoes include large consignments of notepaper. pens, ink and lead pencils from Britain. And they will have lo be careful what the}' write, for blue pencils have also been sent for Ihe censors.