SUPPLIES FOR RUSSIA
BY THE ARCTIC ROUTE BRITISH MINISTER GIVES IMPRESSIVE FIGURES. HEROIC FEAT BY SEAMEN & OTHERS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.30 a.m.) RUGBY, November 12. The Foreign Under-Secretary (Mr R. K. Law) told the House of Commons that supplies sent to Russia by Britain and the United States, via the northern route, in %e past year included 3,052 aircraft, 4,084 tanks, 3,003 vehicles, 831,000 tons of miscellaneous supplies. including machine tools, aluminium, metals and medical stores. The bulk reached their destination. In addition, we delivered 42,000 tons of aviation spirit and petrol and 66,000 tons of fuel oil. This was done, Mr Law said, when we ourselves were in hard straits and could readily have used the material in other theatres. Getting the supplies to Russia had been, on the whole, most successful, but it was not done without cost and demanded from our seamen terrific and indeed heroic feats of endurance.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 November 1942, Page 4
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155SUPPLIES FOR RUSSIA Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 November 1942, Page 4
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