IRANIAN RAILWAY
SUPPLIES FROM AMERICA REQUEST BY BRITAIN (Rec. 11.30 p,m.) NEW YORK, Oct. 13. The Herald-Tribune states that Britain requested America to supply under the Lease and Lend Act 200 locomotives, 20,000 goods trucks, and 250.000 tons of rail steel for the Iranian railway. This might eventually become the only route to convey supplies to Russia, but Washington, officials are chary about sending rolling stock until the outcome of the present battle in Russia is clearer.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24737, 14 October 1941, Page 7
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