CONTRABAND

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 103, 28 October 1939, Page 11

CONTRABAND

DEPUTY CHAIRMAN OF

COMMITTEE

(British Official Wireless.) (Received October 28, 11.10 a.m.) RUGBY, October 27. Mr. Justice Morton has accepted the post of deputy chairman of the Contraband Committee established by the I Ministry of Economic Warfare. | The function of this Committee, of I which Lord Finlay is the chairman, hs to decide whether the cargoes of ! ships calling at British contraband [control bases are to be detained as suspected contraband or released. j On an average the Committee deals with about 80 ships a week.

cerning the City of Flint, which to {the State Department had become a veritable mystery ship. ■ j Apparently he was also piqued by the Soviet's release of news of the [vessel through the Tass news agency] ! hours before it supplied similar information to the United States Government. Mr. Hull intimated that a German prize court at which the United States was represented was apparently the only place where the United States can expect to obtain all the facts. President Roosevelt, at a Press conference, said that he lacked sufficient new information to comment' on the City of Flint incident. Murmansk was a long way from Moscow, and details were hard to get.