GERMAN DISTORTION.
British Steel Rail Orders -In
U.S.A.
RAILWAYS NOT DAMAGED
Brltl»h Official Wireless. (Received noon.)
RUGBY, July 5,
An announcement that 112,000 tone of steel rails have been ordered by Britain from America was twieted in the German home broadcasts into a story that Britain had placed an urgent order because of the destruction wrought by German raider* on British railways. This assumption is absolutely unfounded. The rails have been ordered so as to release British plant for the manufacture of munitions and to replenish reserve stocks. German raids on Britain so far have been desultory affairs and have left the railway system intact. British raids, on Germany, on the other hand, have done serious damage to the rail transport system. This damage can no longer bo concealed from the German public, and the German authorities havo been forced to try and prove, that, they are giving tit-for-tat in England.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 159, 6 July 1940, Page 10
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