SHIPPING TONNAGE.
ALLIES’ BIG SHARE. LONDON, Aug. 26. The effect on shipping of Italy’s entry into the war and the over-run-ning of important European sources of supply by the enemy was mentioned by the Minister of Shipping (Mr R. IT. Cross) in a broadcast. He said that many vital commodities which were formerly obtained from Europe were now being fetched from tho more distant United States, with a consequentincreased strain on Britain’s Mercantile Marine. To offset this, use was being made of the Allied and neutral shipping. Part- of the shipping of the Allies had been caught by the enemy, but tlie quantity remaining free amounted to between 6,000,000 and 7.000,000 tons gross. Not all of it was chartered to the British Government, and some of it was chartered to the United Kingdom before tho countries in squestion were over-run ; but a very substantial part cf this tonnage was in the Allied service and Britain had, in addition to that, 750,000 tons of neutral shipping on time charter. Mr Cross concluded by paying a warm tribute to the courage and skill of the officers and men of the Navy and Merchant Fleet, upon whom tho life-blood of the nation depended.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 230, 27 August 1940, Page 8
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