MERCHANT SHIPS
BRITISH TRANSPORT FEAT Recd. 10 p.m. London, March 11. Merchant ships under the control of the Ministry of War Transport carried more than 2,250,009 members of the services and civilians last year. The shipping correspondent of The Times says: “The magnitude of the task may be judged from the fact that barely a quarter of that total were carried in ordinary passenger I ships between the United Kingdom [and non-European countries in the Ijear before the war. At the outbreak ■ there were only about 100 British oversea liners with full accommodaition for passengers. These had to be .adapted for the transport of troops for which purpose also many freighters were fitted. Moreover, Britain at the outbreak owned only nine regular transports We landed l,000,t)00 tons of stores in North-west Africa, besides the army of half a million, which Mr. Churchill stated on February 12 had been landed there.’’
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 60, 13 March 1943, Page 5
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