TO DEFEAT BLOCKADE
SHALLOW GERMAN SHIPS
• (Received March 29, 9.30 a.m.) STOCKHOLM, March 28.. In an endeavour to defeat the intensified British blockade of iron ore ship- x ments to Germany, the Nazis have commissioned a number of small tramp steamers of shallow draught, enabling them to hug the Norwegian coast during the voyage from Narvik. However, the tramps are badly equipped and the loading time has been increased, with the result that there is a queue of empty steamers waiting for berths.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 75, 29 March 1940, Page 7
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83TO DEFEAT BLOCKADE Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 75, 29 March 1940, Page 7
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