AID FOR BRITAIN
AMERICA’S EFFORT A CONSIDERABLE INCREASE WASHINGTON, - (Rec. 1.45 a.m.) . June 11. In connection with President Roosevelt’s initial report on the progress of the Lend and Lease Bill activities, the United Press learned that approximately 75,000,000 dollars worth of materials has been delivered to Britain and Canada in the two months since the Bill’s enactment. Defence officials said that aid to Britain was at present on a scale 10 times above last .year. They, summarised aid to Britain thus: —Aircraft exports for the first five months of 1941 were 12 times above those for the same period ,in 1940, aircraft engines were 10 - tunes, and iron and steel products and machine tools three times as much in dollar value. For the first four months explosives were 17 times as much and firearms and ammunition 90 times as much. -
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24631, 12 June 1941, Page 8
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140AID FOR BRITAIN Otago Daily Times, Issue 24631, 12 June 1941, Page 8
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