GERMAN EXERTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 89, 15 April 1940, Page 5

GERMAN EXERTS

EFFORTS TO AVOID BRITISH ■' ■ ■'- ■■; :CONTROK:''-S-f-.;ii':.:

■ (British; Official; Wireless.) ■ ;; ' RUGBY. Aprit 13.

The Ministry of - Econohiic Warfare' reveals interesting figures relating to \ Nazi endeavours to avoid the British, control of German exports by dis-V patching small but valuable articles through, the mails, ; For practical reasons the mails have riot till recently ■ been . subjected to a vigorous search, but it has been noticed that such articles as textile needles —which weight for weight are as valuable -as silver—quantities 'of rarer drugs, dyestuffs, small precision tools, precious r stones, and v similar,' articles have , been increasingly sent out' from Germany by mail. A test applied in December to mail tramc to America.revealed that jewel-, lery exported by this'means amounted to 1,000,000 dollars annually; arid precision - tools- to 300,000 i dollars, while;; the weight of dyestuffs was as high ; as 2,250,0001b, and chemicals 18,000,0001b. This traffic to America, it ig thought, is'being carried on at comparative figures with other countries, 4 and as a result strict control has been! . instituted over the ■mails at all Allied contraband bases. Ships of all nation*, alities have been searched, and th> procedure is to take the- mail off the vessel and after examination of the mail* place it on the next mail-carrying ship. ■..:.•;-:-. '. ;■.■;..•;.■ ;,••..,. ;■:/ }:;' /<:'■:'■'■ .