LIVES RISKED FOR BEER
(Rec. 7 p.m.) SYDNEY, May 29. The fact that men of the Navy and merchant marine had risked their lives to take cargoes of Australian beer to the Middle East was deplored by Major Frank Clune, who has returned to Sydney after six months in the Middle East as Honorary Commissioner of the Australian Comforts Fund. He said that more than 80,000 cases of beer had been taken across in.two years. The shipping space might have been given to meat. Egypt was still rationed to three meatless days a week.
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Southland Times, Issue 24757, 30 May 1942, Page 5
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94LIVES RISKED FOR BEER Southland Times, Issue 24757, 30 May 1942, Page 5
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