ATLANTIC BATTLE

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 119, 22 May 1941, Page 9

ATLANTIC BATTLE

POSITION IMPROVED

CONCENTRATION OF EFFORT

NEW AMERICAN PLAN

WASHINGTON, May 21

Congress has approved two farreaching shipping Bills as part of the "Bridge of Ships to Britain" programme.' The Senate approved a Bill authorising the acquisition of 59 new naval auxiliaries at a cost of 300,000,000 dollars. The House .passed a Bill giving the Government broad powers to regulate the- use of United States merchantmen, virtually making them part of the 2,000,000-ton shipping pool to aid Britain.

The United Press states that a wellinformed source indicated today that Britain was concentrating her sea power in the North Atlantic at the expense of other seas, thus explaining the relative safety of American supplies to Britain. The same source said that Britain was far from content about the security of the seas generally, though the situation in the North Atlantic was much improved.

The Maritime Commission has requested the newspapers, Press services, radio, and other sources of public information to create a voluntary censorship on the news of the movements of United States ships aiding the democracies.—U.P.A.