FIRST VICTORY OF ECONOMIC BLOCKADE
Strange!}* enough it was not in oil, rubber, or metal, as was predicted by so many experts, but in textiles that the blockade Avon its first victory. German defeats in the East arc, to a large extent, the result of a shortage of textiles in Germany and throughout the occupied; Europe. Freezing German armies in Russia bear ev'.donee to the fact that stocks of textiles have been exhausted and that there is no hope of replenishment except Avith "ersatz," which is good in the summertime—Avhen the sun shines, but worthless in Avintertimc.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 53, 15 May 1942, Page 3
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97FIRST VICTORY OF ECONOMIC BLOCKADE Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 53, 15 May 1942, Page 3
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