BRITAIN AND U.S.A.
SUPPLIES SENT TO RED ARMY
v (Rec. 10 a.m.) RUGBY, Jan. 20. The United! States Lend-lease Department has released figures which reveal the increasing flow of American and British supplies to the Soviet Union. The goods cent in November, 1942, were 13 times greater than those sent in January, 1942, and to January 1 the United States had shipped more than 3200 tanks, 2600 planes, more than it shipped to the United Kingdom, or to any other military theatre under lend-lease. The United States also sent 81,000 'trucks or other military motor vehicles. Britain also supplied over 2600 Htanks and 2000 planes. Shipments of food to the Soviet ,-are also growing and the United /States* is sending more there than to Britain, as food is considered just as vital to Russia's war effort as munitions of war.—B.O.W.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 17, 21 January 1943, Page 5
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