ON THE SEAS
GERMAN CARGO LOSSES
LONDON. May 18
The “Daily Telegraph's” Naval correspondent says that it is estimated that in the last six months, cargoes bound for Germany and intercepted on the high seas included thirty thousand tons of rubber, five thousand tons of tin, twenty-five thousand tons of edible oil, and smaller but equally important quantities of tungsten and quinine. Cargoes of heavy machinery, machine tools,, engineering components, and dyestuffs consigned to Japan were also intercepted. It would be difficult to over-estimate the importance of the interception of these ships, whose range enables, them to make non-stop runs half-way round the world. Germany can ill afford to lose them, and they may be described as “number one priority ships.” ______
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Greymouth Evening Star, 19 May 1943, Page 5
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