Word: contraband
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Richard Attlee: What steps did the Government propose to take to combat Germany's ruthless new Minenkrieg (mine warfare)? Mr. Chamberlain's reply startled the House and jarred the sensibilities of several nations. The Government, he said, would shortly authorize the Royal Navy to seize not only contraband goods suspected of going into Germany, but all "exports of German origin or ownership." Germany, lying on her economic back half-throttled, had started kicking below the belt. "As a measure of justified reprisal" for "this fresh outrage," Germany should be throttled entirely. She should be cut off from...
...same control ports and with the same machinery used to enforce the blockade of war materials bound for Germany. This machinery was greased last week by offering to neutral shippers commercial passports, called "navicerts," to show that their cargoes have been inspected in their own countries and found non-contraband. Navicerts will be signed by or for His Majesty's Ambassador in the shipper's country and will facilitate (but not guarantee) passage of the shipment through control ports. With what was intended as exquisite British tact, the British Ambassador to the U. S., Lord Lothian, observed that...
...these raider rumors seemed remote and nebulous, the fate of 16,697-ton Rawalpindi was definite. This ship, a fast Peninsular & Oriental steamer requisitioned by the Royal Navy and armed as a merchant cruiser, was assigned to the North Atlantic contraband patrol. When she was sunk Nov. 23 southeast of Iceland with the loss of 280 lives, the Admiralty announced her attackers were two German raiders, one of them the pocket battleship Deutschland. The Admiralty said that when Rawalpindi ignored a shot across her bows, Deutschland fired a salvo with her 11-inch guns at 10,000 yards. Rawalpindi replied...
BERLIN--Authorized Nazi spokesmen said tonight that Germany still hopes to recover the American steamer City of Flint and its cargo of contraband despite refusal of the Norwegian Government to detain the vessel at Bergen after internment of its Nazi prize crew...
...conference was held at the U.S. consulate after Capt. Gainard had broadcast to the United States an account of his ship's 26-day odyssey after its capture on Oct. 9 by the German pocket battleship Deutschland as a contraband carrier...