SEIZURE OF MAIL.
TOKIO, March 17.
While the liner Fushimi Marti was lying at a pier at Singapore, British authorities boarded her and seized 12 bags of mail bound for Germany. The Norwegian American Line has announced that their ship Bergensfjord, which has been detained, will sail at 10 a.m. to-morrow (states a Montreal message). The line is reported to have agreed to take American mail on the British agreeing that she put in at Belfast instead of Kirkwall. ' A later message stated that the State Department announced that the Bergensfjord would be permitted to sail without mails as an act of courtesy pending clarification of the position.
Customs officials in Montreal- prevented the sailing of the Bergeiisfjord because officials of the line refused to allow the ship to carry United States mail. A member of the crew said the Bergensfjord had been, stopped at Kirkwall on several crossings while German mail was taken off.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 94, 19 March 1940, Page 7
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