YUGOSLAV SHIPS
ORDERED TO NON-AXIS PORTS
RUGBY, May 1
The following message has been issued to all Yugoslav ships :on the authority of the Royal Yugoslav G6v» eminent! "Ships are to ignore all instructions emanating from Yugoslavia All Yugoslav ships are under the orders of the Government, which directs those at sea to a British or United States port."—B.O.W.
ANOTHER GUT
PETROL IN AUSTRALIA
(Rec. 10 a.m.) MELBOURNE,
This Day.
Further cuts in. petrol allowances were announced by Senator Mcßride, the Supply Minister, last night. The .new rations provide, for 2000 miles a year by private cars and cycles. Cars used for private and business purposes will have a 20 per cent cut on the existing allowance. General goods vehicles are cut 10 per.cent, and taxis and, tourist vehicles will be allowed two-thirds of their mileage before rationing was introduced. . . V
Senator Mcßride said that the change was designed to achieve the original purpose ol reducing by one-third: the; pre-war civil; consumption, the first six months of rationing having resultediiin "a saving of only 16 per. cent ■..■■ o The:dei; tailed; scales; which .*■ are torbet^an-" nounced shortly,/?will continueto ? lie based on the horsepower of vehicles^--. U.P.A. •: ■; -; ■■- ; ;v■:■ ..■■-: ;% ■: y^ii X
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 103, 3 May 1941, Page 9
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198YUGOSLAV SHIPS Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 103, 3 May 1941, Page 9
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