CONTRABAND CHECK
BRITISH CONTROL BASES WHOLE CARGO SEIZED (Eliio. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn. (British Official Wireless.) Reed. 9 a.m. RUGBY, Nov. 29. The weekly statement on the working of the British contraband control shows that during the week ended November 25 the contraband committee considered 134 new cases of ships and 50 cases outstanding from the previous week. The combined total included 31 Italian ships, 29 Dutch, 28 Norwegian 20 British, 15 Greek, 13 Swedish, 13 United States, 13 Danish, eight Belgian and five Finnish. During this period, one cargo was wholly seized and 97 cargoes were wholly released, either on the first consideration or after inquiries. During the week the system under which advance copies of manifests are received and considered before the ships’ arrival resulted in 31 cases being so dealt with and, in 20 cases, in the ships concerned being released subject merely to the formal checking of the original manifests on their arrival at the control bases. On November 28 there were 85 neutral ships in the three contraband control bases in the United Kingdom of which 47 had been there for less than a week.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20109, 1 December 1939, Page 9
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190CONTRABAND CHECK Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20109, 1 December 1939, Page 9
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