BATTLE OF ATLANTIC

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 6, 8 January 1942, Page 7

BATTLE OF ATLANTIC

TRADE FIGURES SHOW HITLER IS LOSING

RUGBY, January 6. Canadian trade figures strikingly reveal how Hitler is losing the Battle of the Atlantic. In the first 11 months of 1941 the exports of Canadian merchandise to the United Kingdom attained the enormous total of 609,800,000 dollars, compared with 477,150,000 and 298,800,000 respectively in the corresponding period of 1940 and 1939.

"Thus," comments Mr. J. A. MacKinnon, the Canadian Minister of Trade and Commerce, in reviewing the statistics, "in a year of total war, when every shipment of goods sent to the United Kingdom involves risk to life and limb, we have more than doubled our exports to the United Kingdom compared with the corresponding period of 1939.

"Further, since Britain is no longer importing luxuries, we may assume that practically all of our exports have consisted of either food which is required to maintain the health and strength of the British people in their heroic struggle for the survival of democracy or of the war materials and munitions which are needed for the successful conclusion of the war.

"Again, in the first 10 months of 1941 the imports reaching our shores from the United Kingdom amounted to 113,000,000 dollars, compared with 92,000.000 dollars in the same period of 1939.

"Thus, the attempt of the enemy to starve Britain through his raider and submarine blockades have resulted only in a great increase in the trade between the two countries. The futile Battle of the Atlantic is being won." —

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