In one of the latest 8.8. C. broadcasts in “London Calling Europe” it was mentioned that the Norwegian Government in London is financially independent owing to the fact that 90 per cent, of Norwegian merchant shipping was requisitioned in time and saved from confiscation by the rapacious “occupiers” of Norway. The requisitioning decree and order to make for British ports was written, in pencil, on a page torn from a notebook, during the hours when the Oslo Government was organising the last resistance on their own soil. It was at once radioed to all Norwegian ships. This document has not only historic but intrinsic importance because it “made available to the United Nations one of the finest merchant fleets in the world.” In Great Britain there are now 23.000 Norwegian merchant sailors. The document is at present preserved in London.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 December 1942, Page 4
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