GERMANY'S STRAITS.
IMPORTING BY AIR. PARIS, April 23. The Minister of Blockade (M. Monnot), in an interview, said that an aerial blockade of Germany was necessary because Germany was importing goods and currency by the regular air lines. Customs dues at Lisbon airport amounted to £SGBO a day. The Germans were even importing tons of car[>et tacks, from which they were extracting the copper. The Allies were buying all the Yugoslav copper and all Turkish chrome. Germany was suffering from a 90 per cent, deficiency in her fat supplies and even before the war against Norway the Ruhr factories were closed for three days a week because of a lack of iron.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 124, 24 April 1940, Page 9
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