GERMAN MAILS
SEIZED FROM JAPANESE LINER AT SINGAPORE. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. TOKIO, March 17. While the liner Fushimi Marti was lying at a pier at Singapore, British authorities boarded her and seized 12 bags of mail bound for Germany. NORWEGIAN SHIP. UNDERTAKING TO CALL AT BELFAST. MONTREAL, March 17. The Norwegian American Line has announced that their ship Bergensfjord which has been detained, will sail at 10 a.m. tomorrow.
The line is reported to have agreed to take American mail on the British agreeing that she put in at Belfast instead of Kirkwall.
Customs officials in Montreal prevented the sailing of the Bergensfjord because officials of the line refused to allow the ship to carry United States mail. A member of the crew said the Bergensfjord had been stopped at Kirkwall on several crossings while German mail was taken off.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 March 1940, Page 5
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