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MOVEMENTS OF AMERICAN SHIPS Instructions to shipowners that the movements of American vessels operating in foreign waters must not be given any publicity have been issued by the United States Government, according to advice received by Henderson and Macfarlane, Ltd., agents in Auckland for the Matson Line. This development is regarded in shipping circles in the city as significant of the possibilities of the Pacific situation. In consequence of the instructions no information about the arrivals and departures of Matson vessels will be available from the local agents, and intending passengers will be apprised in the vaguest possible manner of sailing dates. No names of vessels or lines, or times of sailing will be published. “This is merely the war-time precaution that Britain and the Empire took at the beginning of the war and may or may not mean that the United States Navy is on the verge of shooting,” commented a shipping official at Auckland. Inquiries from the Superintendent of Mercantile Marine showed that no official advice from the New Zealand Government to accede to the requests of the United States Government had yet been received, but he believed it possible that similar instructions would be received shortly.
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Southland Times, Issue 24546, 22 September 1941, Page 4
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