MERCHANT SHIPPING
HUGE TRANSPORT TASK FORCES AND CIVILIANS (Rec. 10 p,m) LONDON, Mar.-11. Merchant ships under the control of the Ministry of War Transport carried more than 2,225,000 members of the services and civilians last year, says the shipping correspondent of The Times. The magnitude of the task may be judged from the fact that barely aquarter of that total was carried by ordinary passenger ships between the United Kingdom and non-European countries in the year before the war. At the outbreak of the war there were only about 100 British oversea liners with full accommodation for passengers. . These had to be adapted for the. transport of troops, for which purpose also many freighters had to be fitted. Moreover, Britain at the outbreak owned only nine regular transports. We landed 1,000,000 tons of stores in North-west Africa besides-the army of 500,000 which Mr Churchill stated on February 12 had been landed there.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25173, 13 March 1943, Page 4
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