NEUTRAL RIGHTS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 February 1940, Page 7

NEUTRAL RIGHTS

BREAK IN RELATIONS WITH GERMANY SUGGESTED IN NORWAY. I ANGER OVER TREATMENT OF SHIPPING. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. < Received This Day. 10.5 a.m.) OSLO February 14. The sinking of the Snestad on • Tuesday has angered Norway. The newspaper “Tidenstegn” says: “It is a clear breach of international law. Germany treats neutral shipping like an enemy. If Germany is not prepared to guarantee seamen’s lives, it will be necessary for Norway and the other countries that are party to the Oslo Agreement to make her understand that they are not interested in continuing trade relations.” The newspaper adds: "If Germany continues her sea war on the present principles, it will be necessary for neutrals totally to revise their attitude to her," The "Seamen’s Journal" suggests that the Government break off commercial negotiations with Germany. The Snestad. bound to America in ballast, was sunk by a mine or torpedo. The crew was saved. MORE VICTIMS BRITISH SHIP SUNK IN NORTH SEA. ANOTHER VESSEL SHELLED BY U-BOAT. (Received This Day. 9.55 a.m.) LONDON. February 14. Twenty-one survivors of the British steamer Triumph, sunk by an explosion in the North Sea, have landed on the East Coast. It is believed that the other 25 of the crew landed elsewhere. Five of the crew are still missing. It is believed that an upturned ship seen drifting in the North Sea was the Triumph. The Chastine Maersk was sunk by gunfire by an U-boat while bound to Denmark from Morocco. ' Twenty-nine survivors of the Dalaro have been landed at an Iri'sh port. They said an U-boat shelled their vessel. The Great Field sank in flames on the North-East coast of Scotland. Twenty-eight persons were saved and thirteen are missing. Eighteen have been admitted to hospital. A New York message states that the Mackay radio picked up a message stating that the Sultan Star was torpedoed 230 miles south of the Irish coast and that the crew was abandoning the ship. AMERICAN VIEW GERMANY’S GREAT WAR UNLIKELY TO BE REPEATED. (Received This Day, 10.50 a.m.) WASHINGTON. February 14. Government circles are not worried over the German claims regarding the “theoretical right” to torpedo American vessels taken to British control ports. The opinion is expressed that the statement is an attempt to minimise the torpedoing of the Burgerdijk. It is felt that, as submarine attacks speeded the United States entry into the Great War, it is unlikely that the Nazis will repeat their policy of that period.