TROOP MOVEMENT UPSET
SAND SILTING INTERFERES WITH SHIPPING
LONDON, July 22
Thousands of tons of sand silting up the approaches to Southampton Water has prevented the entry of the liners Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mary, and Aquitania, and upset the greatest westward movement of troops everplanned. Vast contingents of Americans from the Continent and throughout Britain have been concentrating for months past at Southampton and in the neighbourhood, but their camps, which required months to build, will be useless, and enormous expenditure will be involved in transporting the Americans, with a vast amount of equipment and stores, to northern ports.
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 20, 24 July 1945, Page 5
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99TROOP MOVEMENT UPSET Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 20, 24 July 1945, Page 5
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