GERMAN SUPPLIES
EFFECTS OF BLOCKADE.
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LONDON, April 25
The Minister for Economic Warfare (Dr. Dalton) said to-day that the blockade alone would not beat Germany. This must eventually be done by the armed forces, but the blockade was helping to weaken Germany and would make the task of the Army, Navy, and Air Force easier and less costly to human lives. There was no shortage of iron in Germany at the present time, but there was a shortage of alloys for the hardening of steel, and this would lead to a deterioration in German munitions. The bombs that were killing people today, he said, were still being drawn from the stocks which Germany had been allowed to build up before the war.
There were no rubber plantations in the countries over-run by Germany, and there was already a short-' age of artificial rubber. There was no shortage of wheat in Germany, but the blockade might succeed in enforcing on the German public a monotonous diet which would weaken their morale. Indeed, letters seized in recent raids on Norway, written by civilians to German soldiers complained of a shortage of some foods, especially fats.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 28 April 1941, Page 5
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