COTTON SUPPLIES
GREAT INCREASE IN NEUTRAL IMPORTS. MAY BE PASSED ON TO GERMANY By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day. 1.0 p.m.) LONDON. March .14. Remarkable increases in neutrals’ purchases of American cotton since the outbreak of war have resulted in an assumption that they are passing on supplies to Germany. Mr R. H. Cross (Minister of Economic Warfare) revealed in the House of Commons that whereas German purchases in the three months ended Noxembcr 3G, 1939, dropped from 64,208,707ib5. to 2,917,772, neutrals’ purchases in the same period increased from 1-14,466,-5301b5. to 314.419,307. Mr Cross added that Sweden in the three months ended February 29. exported 478.058 tons of iron ore to Germany. compared with 1,286,181 tons in the corresponding three months last year. He added that the Anglo-Swed-ish Join Commission had supplied the figures, which the Intelligence Department had checked.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 March 1940, Page 6
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