GREAT ECONOMIC GAINS
DENMARK'S PETROL STOCKS VALUE OF THE INVASION Received April 11, 8.40 p.m. LONDON, April 11. The Times says the German economic gains resulting from an invasion of Scandinavia are not onlv great because of the natural resources of the occupied territories, but alsc because of the extraordinary stocks which Denmark has accumulated recently. Denmark’s petrol stocks alone total a quarter of a million tons Britain imported half her bacon from Denmark, one-third of her eggs anc one-quarter of her butter. Britain obtained 40 per cent, of hei iron ore through Norway, all of s special grade for which British indus try is equipped. She also obtainec important ferro alloys from Norway great quantities of timber, woodpulj and newsprint from Scandinavia generally.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 84, Issue 85, 12 April 1940, Page 5
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