London, Feb. 22, Britain will no doubt take steps to extend her contraband control to the Black Sea to stop illegal Soviet-Ger~ man trade exchanges over that inland well-informed British quarters said tonight, British polley as regards Soviet exports to Germarty via the Black Sea and the River Danube will be determined, they said, by the amount of materials Soviet Russia sends the Reich, Exchanges should not exceed treaty provisions, for excess supplies will bring down British restrictive action, Suridical experts in the British Government, it was learned, are closely studying measures 10 taken to prevent further German abuse of neutral Norwegian ter ritorial waters.
Experts are examining various schemes whereby effective control could be exercised over the move ments of ships in Norwegian waters keeping with international law. Similar measures, if found practicable, might be extended to apply to other routes along which supplies are sent to Germany.
One of these routes, British circles pointed out, runs through sue Black Sea; Soviet oil arrived only yesterday fat Constantza, Rumanian port on the Black Sea, pending shipment to the Reich when the ice-bound Danube is again navigable.
Dealing with the recent Altmark affair, the same circles declared no official Norwegian reply has as yet bean received to the British representations made by the Foreign Soe~ retary, Lord Halifax, immediately utter the "Incident oectrred. Norway may find difficulty in sending a reply, they said, for she may find it a very hard Job to find arguments to convince International jurists.
Rumours that the Norwe thorities have released the Altmark were held to be "probably inaccurate." If true, however, British quarters pointed out release of the Ger-aman auxiliary would not contribute to an amicable settlement—Havas, General Smuts' Party Victorious Windbuk, Fob. 2°.
The general election for the Legislative Assembly of South-West Africa has resulted in a sweeping victory for the United Party, the loader of which is General Jan Smuts, the Prime Minister of the Union." The party secured ten out of the twelve lected seats.
The election was x straight fight between the new Reunited Nationalist Party of General J. B, M. Tertzog, leader of the Opposition and former. Premier, and Dr. D. F. Malan, and the United Party, with the exception fa couple of independent candidates.
The foreign policy of the Reunited Nationalist Party includes the ending, the state of war between the Union and Germany.—Reuter, Swedish General Warns Foreign Planes Stockholm, Feb, 23, Swedish anti-aircraft batteries would fire at all foreign planes which crossed the frontier, declared General Nygren, commander of the province of Norrland, in a. statement today. 'The military authorities, he added, sent experts to Pajala immediately' after the Soviet bombing two das":
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