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unusual facts about Neutral territory



Calcutta Light Horse

The Ehrenfels was known to be transmitting information on Allied ship movements to U-boats from Mormugao harbour in Portugal's neutral territory of Goa.

Franceville, New Hebrides

The municipality of Franceville (present-day Port Vila) on Efate or Sandwich island was established during the period when the New Hebrides were a neutral territory under the loose jurisdiction of a joint Anglo-French naval commission.


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HMS E13

Politiken reported that the Danish government had protested to Germany, pointing out that the E13 had not been destroyed in any kind of pursuit but while she was lying damaged on neutral territory.

Spanish Road

Parts of the road were already in use, but it was Philip II of Spain in 1565, who brought it together when he decided to link up his separate territories through a route that travelled through them and neutral territory.

The Rhinemann Exchange

The German intelligence agency, the Nachrichtendienst, discovers that the Allies are in need of gyroscopes, and proposes an exchange, to take place in neutral territory: Buenos Aires, Argentina.