SUPPLY CRISIS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 87, 14 April 1941, Page 11

SUPPLY CRISIS.

GERMANY'S PLIGHT.

WAR PROBLEM SIDELIGHTS.

(By Air) SAN FRANCISCO. April 2

Professor Noel Frederick Hall, newly named British envoy to the United States, said on his arrival in New York that ("Jermany soon will not be able to replace vital lirst-elass equipment as quickly as needed and that '•they are scratching their heads now over their need for wool, rubber, petroleum and the better mefaW He arrived on the Yankee Clipper as an aide to British Ambassador Lord Halifax, and will co-ordinate the economic activities of Britain and the United States. The liynig-boat carried nine passengers.. including Major Robert B. Williams, I"nitcd States air observer, who was seriously injured in a Nazi air raid on London. "They dropped a firecracker in London on January 31." said Major \\ illiams, "The sight of my right eve is gone, but the left is all right, in fact, better than ever."

Professor Hall said Kuglnnd is ready for tlie exported German "push'' in the spring and added: "We are looking torward to it: the sooner it is over the better.' He said the German oountcrldoekade will be the most serious issue in the next two or three months, and. referring to it as the -'Battle of the North Atlantic."' continued: '"If we win. we go 011 to the home stretch. They have got to do it this summer. If they don't they will never be as strong as they are now, and they will have to draw in their horns."'

Another pa s<enger. Brigadier-General Carlyle H. Wash. commander of tlie Fifth Bombardment Wing at Spokane, Washington State, returning from a two months' duty as an air observer in England. said: 1 lie R.A.F. is doing a splendid job and more than holding its own."'