BATTLE OF ATLANTIC

Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 January 1942, Page 3

BATTLE OF ATLANTIC

BEING WON BY BRITAIN. STRIKING TRADE FIGURES. OTTAWA, January 5. Canadian trade figures strikingly reveal how Hitler is losing the Battle of the Atlantic. In the first eleven months of 1941 exports of Canadian merchandise to the United Kingdom attained the enormous total of 609,800,000 dollars (approx. £169,388,888) compared with 477,150,000 dollars (approx. £132,541,666) and 298,800,000 dollars (approx. £83,000,000) respectively in the corresponding periods of 1940 and 1939. “Thus,” comments the Minister of Trade and Commerce, the Hon J. A. MacKinnon, reviewing the statistics, “in a year of total war when every shipment of goods that is sent to the United Kingdom involves risk of life and limb, we have more than doubled our exports to the United Kingdom as compared with the corresponding mainly peace time period of 1939. Further, since Britain no longer imports luxuries we may assume that practically all our exports have consisted either of food required to maintain the health and strength of the British people in their heroic struggle for the survival of democracy, or, of war materials and munitions needed for the successful conclusion of the war. Again, in the first ten months of 1941, imports reaching our shores from the United Kingdom amounted to 113,000,000 dollars (approx. £31,388,888) compared with 92,000,0000 dollars (approx. £25,555,555) in the same period of 1939. So that the attempt of the enemy to isolate Britain through his raiders and his submarine blockade has resulted only in a great increase of trade in both directions. The fateful Battle of the Atlantic is being won.”