BRITISH BLOCKADE
GAINED IN EFFECTIVENESS
RUGBY, May 17.
The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Economic Warfare, Mr. Dingle Foot, speaking at Liskeard, said: "In spite of the Marseilles leak and the other leak through Siberia. Britain has enforced a far stricter blockade than in the first twenty months of the last war, when goods were permitted to flow into Germany from Holland, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden.
"The sea routes by which German industry is normally fed are cut. Im-. ports from overseas can no longer be carried down the Rhine and Elbe to the industrial belt of western Germany. It follows that essential supplies must be brought by long, uneconomic overland routes. One of the chief problems facing Germany is the substituting of land for sea transport."—
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 116, 19 May 1941, Page 7
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