WAR CONTRABAND
SUCCESS OF THE ALLIED CONTROL OVER 500,000 TONS OF GOODS INTERCEPTED. SOME IMPRESSIVE DETAILS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.35 a.m.) RUGBY, November 3. The Allied contraband control organisation has now intercepted and detained well over half a million tons of contraband suspected of being destined for Germany. French official figures published on October 12 announced the seizure up to that date of 150,000 tons. The British figures for the, fortnight from October 14 to October 28 show that 63,000 tons were intercepted, which raises the British total for the first eight weeks of the war to over 400.000 tons. Fuel petroleum products detained amount to 87,540 tons. This includes twelve million gallons of petrol. By fur the greatest percentage of the consignments detained consists of materials directly applicable to military use.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 November 1939, Page 5
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135WAR CONTRABAND Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 November 1939, Page 5
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