RUMANIAN ASSETS
BLOCKED IN BRITAIN NO HELP FOR GERMANY (United Press Assn.— Klee. Tel. Copyright) LONDON, Oct. 12 The British Government has blocked all Rumanian assets in Britain. thus preventing the Rumanian Government from withdrawing any of its funds from London for the benefit of Germany, savs the Daily Mail. The Germans have demanded that tiae Dutch authorities at The Hague
should nominate a Dutchman to be general manager of Astra Romana, Rumania’s biggest oil company, the majority of the shares of which are held by the Royal Dutch Shell group, whose headquarters have been moved to Curacoa, in the West Indies. The British are strongly protesting against this.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21243, 14 October 1940, Page 7
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