ECONOMIC WARFARE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 243, 14 October 1939, Page 7

ECONOMIC WARFARE

FRENCH COLLABORATION WITH BRITAIN PERMANENT MISSION IN LONDON. (.British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Oct. 12. The French Minister of Blockade, M. Georges Pernot, has been in London on a two-days’ visit. He accompanied by M. Charles Rist, chairman of the Consultative Con. mittee to the Ministry of Blockade, and M. de la Laume, head of the Ministerial department. From the very beginning of the war the British Ministry of EconomicWarfare has worked in the fullest co* operation with the corresponding French authorities, Mid a French liaison mission of 20 officials, headed by M. Paul Morand, is permanently established in the Ministry of Economic Warfare. More recently France created a special Ministry of Blockade in Paris and M. Pernot’s visit to London to confer with the British Minister of Economic Warfare, Mr. Ronald Cross, has established the two Ministers to review the progress so far achieved and concert, still closer measures ol policy for the future. M. Pernot and his advisers left for Paris yesterday. Denmark Facing Ruin. Denmark, Europe’s greatest pro--1 ducer of bacon, butter, and eggs, Is | facing ruin because her two best customers, England and Germany, are at war, states the Associated Press Copenhagen correspondent. Last year these products comprised two-thirds of the total export revenue, of which Britain took 55 per cent, and Germany 20 per cent. Germany is now intercepting Danish ships going to Britain and for this reason England may be compelled to obtain supplies from the Empire and Argentine. Germany is buying £5,000,000 worth of Bulgarian goods and foodstuffs under a barter agreement, states a Sofia message. It is stated that this does not exclude the possibility of British purchases from Bulgaria. mander who had last month sent a personal wireless message to him advising him of the position of a British vessel which bad been torpedoed, in order that a rescue boat might be sent to pick up the crew, was not, as he had understood, in British custody. Competent authorities had informed him that the U-boat officer had been taken prisoner, but a subsequent examination had not confirmed that assumption.