Contraband Committee Deals With 184 Ships in Week
LONDON, November 29,
During the week ended November 25 the contraband committee considered 134 new cases of ships, and 50 cases outstanding from the previous week.
The combined total included 31 Italian ships, 29 Dutch, 28 Norwegian, 20 British. 15 Greek. 13 Swedish, 13 United States, 13 Danish, eight Belgian and five Finnish.
In this period one cargo was
wholly seized, and 97 cargoes wholly released either on first
considerations or after inquiries.
The system under which advance copies of manifests ,are received and considered before the ship’s arrival resulted, in 31 cases being so dealt with, and in 20 cases in the ships concerned being released, subject merely to a formal checking of the original manifest when the ship arrived ,at a control base.
On November 28 there were 85 neutral ships in three contraband control bases in the United Kingdom. Of these ships. 47 had been detained for less than a week.
Loan.— Dr. H. Schacht, former President of the Reichsbank, and German Minister of Economics, is planning to raise a loan in the United States from bankers of German descent. He expects in this way to obtain enough foreign currency to pay for imported war materials.
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Northern Advocate, 1 December 1939, Page 6
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