SEIZURE OF CARGOES
GOODS FOR GERMANY TREATP4ENT OF NEUTRALS BRITISH CONTROL WORK (ISi-itisli Official Wireless.) Reed. 9 a.m. RUGBY, Dee. 3. In view of the reports which show that some doubts still exist in certain quarters regarding the intentions of the British contraband control, it may be well to recall a recent statement of the Ministry of Economic Warfare which most emphatically declared that no cargoes, other than those genuinely suspected as being destined to Germany, would ever be seized. During the first three weeks of the war when there were many cargoes consigned to Germany on the high seas, 42 cargoes were wholly seized, while 80 were wholly released. During the subsequent nine weeks, 21 cargoes were wholly seized and (198 wholly released. Then these figures do not include cargoes partly seized. The experience of the last nine week* serves to illustrate the overwhelming proportion of genuine neutral cargoes permitted to pass without interference.
The time of detention lias been greatly reduced since the early days of the war, at least half the ships subjected to control now being released within a few days.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20111, 4 December 1939, Page 12
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