SHIPMENTS TO BRITAIN

Evening Star, Issue 23864, 19 April 1941, Page 10

SHIPMENTS TO BRITAIN

SCALE OF AMERICAN HELP PROVISIONS OF LEASE AND LEND ACT WASHINGTON, April 16. Colonel Knox told the Committee investigating defence that 128.000. dollars' worth of naval material had been shipped to Britain by April 14, and plans nad been completed to deliver an additional 272,UOO,OOO dollars’■ worth. “ We are every day issuing existing stocks to Britain ui accordance with the provisions of the Lease and Lend Act, ’ ne said. The Maritime Commission has announced the acquisition of four American cargo ships for immediate transfer to Britain. These ships will sail under the British flag and will be manned by British officers and crews. The Co-ordinator of Defence Production, Mr W. S. Knudsen, stated that the automobile industry had agreed to a 20 per cent, reduction in car output, which would involve 1,000,000 cars. In a speech to the Defence Morale Conference of United Service Organisations, Mr William L. Batt, Deputy Defence Production Director, said the 7.000. war aid fund was just the start of the help that the United States would eventually have to furnish to Britain. He warned the conference that the “ honeymoon is over,’’ and summoned the nation to awaken to the seriousness of the task that confronts it.