AMERICAN ARMS
HEAVY PURCHASES MADE BY AUSTRALIA MILITARY PLANES & ENGINES. FRANCE HEADS BUYING LIST. By Telegraph —Press Association—Copyright. WASHINGTON, June 16. Australia appeared for the first time today as a heavy purchaser from the United States of arms, ammunition and implements of war, when the monthly report of the State Department covering export munitions was published. During May, Australia obtained licences for purchases to a value of 4,428,000 dollars. All but 800,000 dollars’ worth of the materials was for military planes and engines for commercial craft. France was a leading purchaser with 9,493,000 dollars, but she had been a heavy purchaser before. British licences totalled only 227,000 dollars.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 June 1939, Page 7
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108AMERICAN ARMS Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 June 1939, Page 7
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