NEUTRAL COTTON PURCHASES
BIG INCREASES NOTED PASSING ON SUPPLIES TO GERMANY Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, March 14. (Received March 15, at 1 p.m.) The remarkable increases in neutrals’ purchases of American cotton since the outbreak of the war has resulted in the assumption that they are passing on supplies to Germany. Mr Ronald Cross, in the House of Commons, revealed that whereas the German, purchases for the three months ended November 30, 1939, dropped from 64,208,7071 bto 2,917,7721 b neutrals’ purchases in the same period increased from 144,466,5301 b to 344,419,3071 b. Mr Cross added that Sweden for the three months ended February 29 exported 478,058 tons of iron ore to Germany, compared with 1,286,181 in the corresponding three months of last year. He said the Anglo-Swedish Joint Commission had supplied the figures, which the Intelligence Department had cheeked.
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Evening Star, Issue 23526, 15 March 1940, Page 6
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