SHIPPING GAINS
FOREIGN & NEUTRAL ; SHIPS. STATEMENT BY BRITISH MINISTER. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 12.25 p.m.) RUGBY, November 12. The Minister of Shipping (Mr Ronald Cross) stated in the House of Commons that at the end of October the total tonnage of foreign vessels of 500 tons gross and over added lo the British Merchant Fleet by capture, requisition and purchase was about 1,250,000 tons gross. The corresponding tolal of Allied and neutral vessels time-chartered to Britain was approximately foul' million tons. Mi- Cross added: “It should not be inferred that ail the tonnage now at our disposal represents an addition to our importing capacity, as much foreign tonnage traded to our ports prior to the outbreak of war."
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 November 1940, Page 6
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