FLOUR FOR FRANCE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 97, 24 March 1941, Page 7

FLOUR FOR FRANCE.

WASHINGTON, March 22. The Assistant-Secretary of State (Mr Sumner Welles) announced that the United States had arranged to purchase two shiploads of (lour and send them as a gift to Unoccupied France. The distribution would be under the supervision of the American Red Cross, whose representatives would see that not a single pound of flour or a similar equivalent of foodstuffs reached the occupied zone. Mr Welles said the. British had agreed to the passage of two French ships which are tied up in New York. , • The British Embassy issued a statement indicating that the agreement to permit two French ships to pass the blockade did not imply that „ under present conditions the British Government was prepared to issue navicerts for the importation of other supplies to The a motor-ship Brawl, tne first merchant ship since the war which has been permitted to go to Sweden through the British and German blockades, sailed from San Francisco last ttht with a cargo of foodstuffs and medicine for Gothenburg by way of the Panama Canal. A clearance was X-ven the Brazil under the recent agreement between the Governments of Britain and Sweden.