An item reported that up to May 1950
totally 26 pilots were active on the Danube, since then left 8 pilots dismissed
as being ‘alien’. Soviet ships were the only ones allowed to travel by night
and were furthermore not escorted by the Rumanian River Police as not Soviet
ships were. Foreign loaded cargo ships had always Romanian custom officials on
board. Hungary handed 8 of the vessels over to the Soviet Union as part of war
reparations.
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