GERMAN SHIPS
NOW IN ALLIED SERVICE CARRYING MUNITIONS OR FOOD. ACCOMMODATION FOR CREWS IMPROVED. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.50 a.m.) RUGBY. April 29. Twenty of the thirty-one captured German merchant vessels have been thoroughly overhauled and refitted, and are in service for the Allies, carrying munitions or food. The refitting of the remainder is almost complete. The Minister for Shipping (Mr. R. S. Hadsome), in a speech on Saturday, referred to the unsatisfactory nature o£ the crew accommodation in more than half the captured ships, and the necessity for extensive structural alterations.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 April 1940, Page 5
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