PACIFIC PATROL
NOT BEYOND STRENGTH OF ALLIED NAVIES MR. CHURCHILL’S ASSURANCE. DOMINIONS AND NEUTRALS TO BE CONSULTED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, March 14. The First Lord of the Admiralty. Mr. Churchill, and other Allied naval chiefs assured the British Minister of Economic Warfare. Mr. Cross, that the task of patrolling the Pacific to prevent, leakages of war cargoes to German}’ via Vladivostok, is not beyond their powers. Before a Pacific control can be established the Governments of Canada, Australia, Japan and Holland must be consulted.
Huge cargoes .of rubber, tin, lead, copper and machinery are still believed to be reaching Germany from America along uncontrolled Pacific routes to which a Russian mercantile fleet has been diverted. Il is stated that transport over the transibevian railway is the most expensive in 'the world. Freights now cost £l2 10s a ton.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 March 1940, Page 5
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