WAR ITEMS
The British War Office has published a further list of eight officers and men from U-boats who are prisoners of war.
The President of the Board of Trade disclosed in the House of Commons that the agreement with the Soviet trade delegation concluded last October for the exchange of timber against rubber, had not yet been put into operation, largely owing to shipping difficulties.
A Swiss decree forbids the export of all war materials except under a special permit.
It is reported that 10 trainloads of German troops and equipment are going to Kolomyja, in the Galician oilfields.
A Coastal Command aeroplane guided a mine-sweeper to an open boat in which 10 members of the crew of the trawler Theresa Boyle had been drifting for 50 hours. Their vessel had been sunk by a German bomber 120 miles from the English coast.
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Waikato Times, Volume 126, Issue 21038, 14 February 1940, Page 8
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