WAR SUPPLIES
AMERICAN DELIVERIES EFFECT OF IRAN MOVE SHORTER ROUTE PROVIDED WASHINGTON, (Rec. 11.30 p.m.) Aug. 25. According to the United Press of America, competent authorities asserted that the United States would probably effect delivery of war supplies to Britain and Russia under the protective guns of the Pacific fleet if the British and Russian Iran campaign succeeds. The junction of the Soviet and British armies in Iran would force the last link in the strategic trans-Pacific supply line, extending from the west coast of the United States, through British Malaya, thence to India, into the Persian gulf and across either Iran or the Caspian Sea to south-east Russia. The fleet could guarantee the route without leading the Pacific, thus blasting Axis hopes of forcing the fleet into the Atlantic, so that Japan would be free to pursue her expansionist programme in the southern Pacific. The route would be safely outside the war zones and shorter than the present route to the Middle East via the Red Sea and Egypt.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24696, 27 August 1941, Page 7
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