NAZI DEMANDS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 263, 7 November 1939, Page 7

NAZI DEMANDS.

U.S. VESSEL'S CARGO.

Detention Of Citv Of Flint

Wanted.

NEGOTIATIONS WITH NORWAY,

(Received 11 a.m.) LONDON. November 0. The Berlin correspondent of the British I"ilitc<l Press reports that Germany submitted three demands to Norway in connection with the iatter's action regarding' the American freighter City of Flint, the legality of which (ierman and Norwegian jurists are examining. The, demands embrace the release of the (ierman prize crew from detention, the surrender of the ship and cargo to (iormany, and the detention nl" the ship till negotiations are concluded. The same correspondent, in a later message, says he learns that, in accordance with the new Neutrality Bill, the City of Flint is proceeding to America direct, taking back the British cargo and not calling at an Knglish port. A New York cable states that broadcasting from Bergen, the master of the City of Flint, Captain .Joseph (iainard. revealed that he put into Haugesund harbour in compliance with instructions from the (ierman merchant vessel Schwaben (777.'! tons) not becausy an

American sailor was ill, as was alleged by the Nazis. The Schwaben circled the City of Flint and the commander shouted an order through a megaphone.

Ca.ptain (iainard added that when the City of Flint was seized, the (ierman commander of the vessel that seized it told the crow that "if you make any trouble I shall put you in open boats and sink the ship."

g Earlier cables from Oslo stated that j Norway lias sent a Note to (ioniiany rejecting her request that the City of Flint should In- lii'lil pending neuotiar tions. also (iermany's request that her S prize crow, now interned at Haugesund. 11 should he released. The commander of the prize erew inj 1 formed the Norwegian authorities that the Cerman Government had ordered " him to anchor in liatiLiesund harbour, in 0 spite of the Norwegian pvohihitioii. Norwegian doctors have disproved the German claim that a. niemlier of the American crew was ill. Thus the prize crew flouted the Hajruc Neutrality Conventions. It is reported from ISeruen that the City of Flint sighted a Kritish cruiser j while within Norwegian territorial waters last Thursday, the day before she entered Han^esiind. The American -ailors in the City of I Flint assert that several German prize ■ships were at .Murmansk, the .Russian I port to which their vessel was first I taken, says a message from Bergen. I i HITCH IN TRADE PACT. GERMANS AND YUGOSLAVS. I.< >N IX >X. November (i. The Belgrade correspimdent of "The "limes says that tour leading members of the < lernian trade delegation have i unexpectedly returned home. It is known that Yugoslavia is not delivering the full quantities agreed upon because Germany's compensatory goods are not arriving punctually.