VESSELS DETAINED
ACTION BY TURKEY (11 am.) LONDON, April 20. The Turkish Government has detained two 7000-ton Rumanian liners, the Transylvania and the Bessarabia, about to leave for the Black Sea, reports the Istanbul correspondent of The Times. Guards were placed aboard the ship's and parts of the engines were ' removed to prevent their escape. The detention was justified on the ground that the ships were about to be used as military thereby acquiring the status of auxiliary ships whose passage through the straits was prohibited by the Montreux Convention. It is believed that the Rumanians intended to use them to attempt to rescue the remnants of the forces trapped at Sebastopol. The ships nave been lying in Istanbul harbour since the German aggression again Russia in 1941.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21385, 21 April 1944, Page 3
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