SHORTAGE IN ITALY OF T.N.T.
HOME-MADE EXPLOSIVES
[ British Official Wireless. ) RUGBY, Jan. 8. j There is some evidence that the British blockade is creating a problem in the supplies of explosives in enemy countries. In the months immediately preceding Italy's entry into the war she imported all the toluol she could get. These imports have not proved sufficient for Italy’s need, and she has been using some high explosive made from home-produced materials; however, it appears that this has not proved satisfactory. It is known that Italy's need of T.N.T. is extremly urgent, and it has been reported that workmen have been thrown out of employment in Italy because of the shortage of the i necessary component raw materials, j After only five months of not very active warfare and before Italy's attack on Greece or the large-scale operations in the Western Desert she 'made urgent appeals to Germany for IT.N.T. Germany has supplied considerable quantities of high explosives to .of her Axis partner distinctly embarrassing, for she herself is feeling Italy, but she is finding the demands some shortage or high explosive.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 9, 11 January 1941, Page 6
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