BRITISH COMPLAINT
LODGED BY VISCOUNT HALIFAX FAILURE OF NORWEGIAN SEARCH. NEGLECT OF NEUTRAL DUTY. The British Foreign Minister, Viscount Halifax, has lodged a complaint against the failure of the Norwegian authorities to establish the presence of between 300 and 400 British prisoners on board the Altmarck when she was searched at Bergen, a Daventry broadcast reports. The Norwegian Government had failed in its duty as a neutral, Lord Halifax stated, and the British Government maintained that the Altmarck should be interned. The Altmarck has long been known as a naval supply ship, and is given as such in the official German naval list; yet since Friday the German radio has claimed in all languages, and with endless repetition that slie was a completely unarmed merchantman. She is not listed at Lloyds. By their pretence the Nazis sought to infer io their own people and others that the British Navy had been guilty of attacking a defenceless ship. The German Foreign Ofl'ice admits that the Altmarck was a tanker 'in the service of the German Navy and since the war started had refuelled the Graf Spee. The crew were armed with pistols for police purposes. The Altmarck is also listed in the international list of wireless stations.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 February 1940, Page 5
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