CLOSE BRITISH WATCH

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 82, 4 October 1944, Page 5

CLOSE BRITISH WATCH

WOULD-BE ESCAPEES FROM REICH

Rf%L nd Q £' m- RUGBY, Oct. 3. „™ Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Economic Warfare, answering a question in the House of Commons as to what steps the Government was taking to prevent the escape from Europe of Nazi leaders and other German nationals on outward-bound Spanish ships, replied: "For the last .two years the British Government has administered a system of passenger and crew control on all neutral ships sailing to or from European Neutral ships, whether inward or outward bound, are not allowed to pass through our controls without a ship navicert, and this document is in no case granted until the list of passengers and crew has been approved by our consular authorities at the port of embarkation."

Mr. Dingle Foot added: "In recent weeks every outward-bound . Spanish ship has been required, as a condition of her ship navicert, to call at a British contraband control port, where we can satisfy ourselves that no unauthorised persons are on board."— 8.0. W.