A REGULAR FLOW
BRITISH SHIPPING
LONDON, October 2. A spokesman at the Ministry of Economic Warfare disclosed the hollowness of Italy's claim to control the Mediterranean, or' even seriously to interfere with British trade in the Levant.
Some British convoys are able to traverse the Mediterranean, and a regular and steadily increasing trade is passing to and from the Suez Canal and the Red Sea past Eritrea and Italian Somaliland. Italian submarines and planes are powerless to check it. Since July Britain has imported tens of thousands of tons of magnesite from Greece for making bombs. The United Kingdom commercial corporation has imported vast quantities of dried fruits from the same source. Timber came from Rumania, dried fruits and other goods from Turkey, hemp and flax
from the Balkans, and cotton, cotton seed, lime, phosphates, and onions from Egypt. Cotton shipments for the first six months of the year were above the average. Cyprus sends asbestos and iron pyrites, and increasing quantities of potash are being imported from Palestine.
Britain is carrying on a large export trade with these countries. Egypt gets coal, oil, fertilisers, timber, metals, and machinery safely, though according to enemy propaganda British trade in the Near East has completely stopped.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 83, 4 October 1940, Page 7
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204A REGULAR FLOW Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 83, 4 October 1940, Page 7
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