Contraband Control Seizure
BRITISH AND FRENCH SUCCESSES (British Official Wireless.) Received Thursday, 9.20 p.m. RUGBY, Dec. 27. During the week ended December 23 the British Contraband Control intercepted 6824 tons of contraband goods suspected of being designed for Germany. This total included 4568 tons of petroleum and allied products, 660 tons of cotton, 614 tons of foodstuffs and beverages, 214 tons of fibre, 2.12 tons of tin, 105 tons of rubber and quantities of non-metallic products, oil and fats, cereals, wool, guns and resins, hides and skins and timber. The French Contraband Control examined sixteen vessels during the week ended December 24 and seized 40,000 tons. BRITISH OPERATIONS IN TURKISH WATERS OBJECTED TO BY GERMANY Received Thursday, 7.20 p.m. LONDON, Dec. 28. The Berlin radio complained that British warships seized ono Italian and one Hungarian ship in Turkish waters and took them to Malta for contraband search. The Germans declared that British warships tvere using Turkish wators without being disturbed, thus raising the question of Turkey’s neutrality.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 307, 29 December 1939, Page 7
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