AMERICAN CONCERN.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 October 1939, Page 5

AMERICAN CONCERN.

OVER FATE OF CITY OF FLINT CREW FURTHER PROTESTS LIKELY. INTERNATIONAL LAW BROKEN BY SOVIET. By Telegraph—Proas Association —Copyright. NEW YORK, October 29. The Washington correspondent of the “New York Times” sayS that anxiety over the City of Flint’s Crew is growing in official quarters, which are still unable to learn their whereabouts from Moscow or Berlin. If the City of Flint is attempting to run the blockade it is .believed the Americans will be endangered. It is feared that the Germans will scuttle the ship to prevent her capture. Further protests to Russia and Germany are likely. Official quarters are disinclined to accept what they regard as Soviet inspired propaganda about the United States' diplomatic victory and today reemphasises that the Soviet broke international law. The Moscow correspondent of the “New York Timos,” Mr Gedye, in -a message published yesterday, said: “The defeat of the German scheme to delay the City of Flint indefinitely at Murmansk must be considered a United States diplomatic victory. The Germans are disappointed and do not disguise that they demanded that Russia apply article 23 of The Hague Convention of 1907. providing for a neutral to allow a belligerent to bring a seized neutral ship into harbour for sequestration, pending the prize court’s decision. The flaw was that the United States excepted article 23.”