BLOCKADE OF GERMANY

Grey River Argus, 5 September 1939, Page 7

BLOCKADE OF GERMANY

By British Navy (Received September 4, 7 p.m.) NEW YORK, September 3. The Washington correspondent of the New York “Times” says: Information reaching officials here, although unconfirmed, says that Britain has ordered a naval blockade of Germany, locking up the entrance to the Baltic Sea near the Skagerrak, and stretched across the North Sea, neat* the Scandinavian Peninsula. ORDERS TO BRITISH NAVY. INTERCEPTED IN GERMANY. (Received September 4, 9.10 p.m.) [lndependent Cable]. BERLIN, September 3. It is authoritatively stated that German radio stations have intercepted orders sent to the British Navy to open hostilities against Germany. BRITISH PRECAUTIONS. (Received September 4, 10.30 p.m.) LONDON, September 3. All British merchantmen are now liable to examination by the Contraband Control Service. The convoy system, will be re-introduced. National newspapers are being reduced in size to twelve pages. The Ministry of Supply has established a Board of Wool Control, under Sir Harry Shackleton. Unrest Reported

IN WESTERN GERMANY. (Received September 5, 3.23 a.m.) [lndependent CaoTe.7 LONDON, September 4. It is reported from The Hague that Storm Troopers broke up groups of people in the streets and towns of Western Germany who were criticising the hastiness with which Germany had plunged nito war. : There were an exceptional number of marriages yesterday. Special facilities were granted, but copies of “Mein Kampf” were not handed out as previously. State Insurance FOR CARGOES GOING TO BRITAIN (Received September 4, 7 p.m.) LONDON, September 3. The Board of Trade has announced that from to-morrow (September 4) it will insure shipping cargoes against war. German Ships INTERNED IN MEXICO. (Received September 4, 11.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, September 4. A message from Vera Cruz states that the German liners, Columbus and Orinco, and the freighters Rehin, Emmyfriedrich, Idarwald, and Hamlet, have been tied up at Mexican ports. WHERE IS THE “BREMEN”? — _ LONDON, September 3. / The Admiralty has officially denied I the Bremen’s captures