DESTRUCTION OF NAZI VESSELS
LONDON, May 18.
Sir Victor Warrender, Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty, said that the Royal Air Force was known to have hit over 80 vessels with bombs in their “home” waters in the past month. The tonnage of the vessels was well over 180,000 tons. Of this at least 60,000 tons had been sunk.
The Parliamentary Secretary for the Ministry of Economic Warfare, Mr Dingle Foot, speaking at Liskeard, said: “In spite of the Marseilles leak and the other leak through Siberia Britain has enforced a far more strict blockade than in the first 20 months of the last war, when goods were permitted to flow into Germany from Holland, Denmark, Norway and Sweden. The sea routes by which German industry is normally fed are cut off. Imports from overseas can no longer be carried down the Rhine and the Elbe to the industrial belt of Western Germany. “It follows that essential supplies must be brought by long and uneconomic overland routes. One of the chief problems facing Germany is that of substituting land for sea transport.”
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Southland Times, Issue 24439, 20 May 1941, Page 5
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