SUPPLIES TO RUSSIA
NON-MILITARY GOODS £50,000,000 FROM BRITAIN (British Official Wireless.) (10.30 a.m.) RUGBY, April 8. The United Kingdom Corporation reveals that the value of non-military supplies delivered to Russia t.byc.y.gh the corporation totals £50,000,000. An official said that within a fortnight of the outbreak of the RussianGerman war, the corporation became the medium for the purchase through Britain of hundreds of thousands of tons of all manner of merchandise, ranging from the smallest tools to large self-contained mobile electricpower generating plants to replace those destroyed in areas which the Germans have over-run.
Eighty-two thousand tons of rubber were shipped to Russia from Ceylon and 26,000 tons of tin from Cornwall. The corporation also sent industrial diamonds by air and had drawn on the Empire for Russian requirements. It obtained wool from New Zealand. Australia, Syria, Iraq and Persia, and copper, zinc, ferro-chrome and ferrosilicon from Canada.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21065, 9 April 1943, Page 3
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