BLOCKADE WAR

Grey River Argus, 19 May 1943, Page 5

BLOCKADE WAR

AXIS FIGHTING NEEDS Cargoes Intercepted LARGE AMOUNTS INVOLVED. (Rec. 7.45.) 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 thirtv thousand tons of rubber, five thousand tons of tin. twenty-five thousand tons of edible oil, and smaller but equally important quantities ol tungsten and quinine. Cargoes ol heavy machinery, machine tools, engineering components and dyestuffs consigned to Japan were also intercepted. It would be difficult to over-esti-mate the importance of the interception of these last ships, whose range enables them to make non-stop runs half-wav round the world. Germany can ill afford to lose them, and they mav be described as “number one priority ships.” _