BRITISH VESSELS
TAKEN OVER IN RUMANIA OCEAN GOING SHIPS SEIZED IN REPRISAL. STATEMENT BY MR CROSS. ißy Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.45 p.m.) LONDON, November 5. The Minister of Shipping, Mr Reginald Cross, in a /Parliamentary reply, said the Rumanian decree taking over control of British-owned and British chartered vessels in Rumanian territorial waters affected approximately sixty craft, in the main river lugs and barges, of which twenty were Britishowned and forty British-chartered. Britain had repeatedly protested against the detention of these vessels. We had seized three ocean-going Rumanian vessels and a fourth was cn route to Britain under an armed guard.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 November 1940, Page 6
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103BRITISH VESSELS Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 November 1940, Page 6
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