SHIPPING FALLS INTO ALLIED HANDS
VESSELS IN AFRICAN PORTS (8.0. W.) RUGBY, Nov. 18. “The United Nations welcome a windfall awaiting them in north and west Africa in the shape of 200.000 to 300.000 tons of shipping now lying in ports along that coast,” said an official of the Ministry of Economic Warfare to-day. “The Axis, in addition to losing this tonnage, will find the task of their coastal shipping along the African coast more dangerous than ever.” Of the results of the North African campaign, the official said that Axis Europe had been making do with only half the normal quantity of phosphates needed for fertilisers, but from now on they would have only one-quarter of the quantity required. This,--however, would not affect the 1943 harvest. Because of a shortage of high-grade iron ore, Germany had stepped up north and west African ore production from 53.000 tons in 1941 to 440,000 tons in 1942, the latter figure representing 16 per cent, of the yearly consumption of Axis Europe. This supply was now denied to the Axis,
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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23800, 20 November 1942, Page 5
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