BIGGEST YET SENT
CONVOY TO RUSSIA
SEVENTY-FIVE-SHIP ESCORT
RUGBY, September 26. The disclosure that no fewer than 75 warships of the Royal Navy of varying sizes escorted the recent Anglo-American convoy to Russia was made by Mr. Anthony Eden in a speech at Leamington. The convoy, lie said, had safely delivered in Russia the largest total of munitions yet transported in a single voyage from the United Kingdom and the United States. The shipment included aircraft, tanks, guns, ammunition, and valuable stores of all kinds. "It is good to know that these supplies reached our Russian allies at a critical time," he said. "The Battle of Stalingrad is an heroic struggle and no praise can fairly describe what the Russian, armies have achieved." The convoy passed through the Arctic to northern Russian ports. Reuter's-fcorrespondent on one of the escort' ships says that the convoy's losses must remain a secret, but it is safe to say that Stalin will be pleased and astounded at what has arrived at a northern port.—B.O.W.
Leamington,
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 77, 28 September 1942, Page 5
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