NORWAY FIRM
NOTE TO GERMANY THE FREED STEAMER FLOUTING OF CONVENTIONS (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. CopyrlgQt) OSLO, Nov. 5 Norway has sent a Note to Germany rejecting her request that the American steamer City of Flint should be held pending negotiations, also Germany’s request that her prize crew, now interned at Haugesund, should be released. The commander of the prize crew informed the Norwegian authorities that the German Government had ordered him to anchor in Haugesund harbour, in spite of the Norwegian prohibition. Norwegian doctors have disproved the German claim that a member of the American crew was ill. Thus the prize crew flouted the Hague Neutrality Conventions. It is reported from Bergen that the City of Flint sighted a British cruiser while within Norwegian territorial waters last Thursday, the day before she entered Haugesund. The American sailors in the City of Flint assert that several German prize ships were at Murmansk, the Russian port to which their vessel was first taken, says a message from Bergen.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WT19391107.2.80
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20955, 7 November 1939, Page 7
Word count
Tapeke kupu
167NORWAY FIRM Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20955, 7 November 1939, Page 7
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Waikato Times. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in