HELPING RUSSIA
GREAT FLOW OF SUPPLIES. (Roc. 1 p.m.) RUGBY, Nov. 12. The Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs (Mr Law) told the House of Commons that supplies sent to Russia by Britain and the United States via tlie northern route in the past year included 3052 aircraft, 4054 tanks, 30,031 vehicles, and 831,000 tons- of miscellaneous supplies, including machine tools, aluminium, and metals. The great bulk of these reached their destination. In addition we delivered 42,000 tons of aviation spirit and petrol and 66,000 tons of fuel oil. This was done when we ourselves were in hard straits and could readily have used the material in other theatres.
Getting supplies to Russia had been, on the whole, most successful, but it was not done without cost and demanded from our seamen terrific, indeed heroic, feats of endurance.—Official Wireless.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXII, Issue 296, 13 November 1942, Page 2
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