BRITISH BLOCKADE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 January 1941, Page 9

BRITISH BLOCKADE

MUST BE TIGHTER VET STATEMENT BY DR. DALTON. ( NAZIS GETTING SUPPLIES FROM RUSSIA ■ H;. £'<r. j •!■. -- J * tA smh 1;,’.C0;>;.: u'li'.' LONDON. January 5 The Minister -if Ecoiwmic Warfare. Dr Hugh Dalton, in a special interview with the "Sunday Times." emphasised the eifechvem ss m the blockade against '.he .Axis, and added: ’The net i.-i drawn light, though I would like it lighter" Germany, ’ said Dr Dalton "lias important supply iv>ule> opening up fur distant parts of the world u. her. Russia is supplying raw materials fu t iermany ami nerm;<n-<i'»minat«! countries at a i >te higher than can be spared from her own ,u Fur that purpose -he is importing large quantities of coltoil from N- >th uno South America, am! rubier ami m.>!i-f■-n -iti? meiois from 'die F.<t East Gi'iin.itn. by tlm route, is getting ■ steady trickle of valuable gome "Our technique has been to keep the blockade w< rkmg on the quays :->t - ■ ,■ the seas. by navicerts and »h,p war- I rants. We nave been criticised <-n the 1 ground that Spain constitutes a icakd but I am etilt irci-d that lev. gvr.rr-- ; . treaimviit might ha*. <• played into iii'. j hands and deprived al*. impmi'i-i ished Sj-.m . f -m,’- md<qcmn-m.e Ourl regulate n of Im- mud<- a Mg-I nificari volume vf rv-vxjx.rt? '.■■ m<-j enemy must unlikely ■ ■'lla!’. i- ir.urc directly hn th;,; G--r-' nititsy compared with which pci .>f<--< guard-: ,(g.o!'.-t the block.m- arc far i Jess thorough, purticulmly m respect e ; -.d ami Oil ‘ German j-tv|-.:eitnes- a mmim. ishing ii-o’-t while, on the co!'!ir.iry, the! bhiccadc gams strength d. .D '■