British Control Searches For Contraband - Friendly Spirit Means Speedy Service - A search party on the way out in a drift0r to neutral ships anchored at a South Coast contraband control base. A spirit of friendliness and mutual helpfulness prevails between the officers and men of the British contraband control and the officers and crews of the neutral ships which put in at the British contraband control base. Co-operation permits the ships to be examined and reloaded with the least possible delay. March 30, 1940.