ECONOMIC WARFARE
CLOSE ALLIED- CO-OPERATION. [BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS.] (Recd. October 12, 2.15 p.m.) RUGBY, October 11. . M. Georges Pernot, French Minister for Blockade, has been in London on a two days’ visit. He was accompanied by M. Charles Rist, Chairman of the Consultative Committee to the Ministry for Blockade, and M. de la Laume, head of the Department in the Ministry. From the very beginning of the war, the Ministry of Economic Warfare has worked in the fullest cooperation with the corresponding French authorities, and a. French liaison mission of 20 officials, headed by M. Paul Morand, is permanently established in the Ministry of Economic Warfare. More recently, France created a special Ministry for Blockade, in Paris, and M. Pernot’s visit to London to confer with Mr Ronald Cross has enabled the two Ministers to review the progress so far achieved; and to concert still-closer measures of policy for the future. M. Pernot and his advisers left for Paris, this afternoon. GOODS SEIZED BY FRANCE. PARIS, October 11. The French Navy has thus far seized 150,000 tons of goods destined for Germany, including 40,000 tons of ores, 40,000 tons of food, and 20,000 tons of liquid fuel.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 12 October 1939, Page 8
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