British engineers have just completed the job of rebuilding two of Turkey’s principal ports, Alexandretta and Mersin, the 8.8. C. reported recently. Supplies valued at £9,000,000 pounds were said to have been sent to Turkey since July, 1940. Orders carried out through the United Kingdom commercial corporation, include such vital materials as railway locomotives, constructional steel, mining machinery, cables, manufactured cotton and woollens. “Then again we have supplied the Turkish people with rubber, oil, tin conserves, tea and general J™ 21 ’ - chandise,” a- spokesman stated. 'They have also had military equipment, tents, boots, and even hot water bottles.”
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19421230.2.25
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 December 1942, Page 3
Word count
Tapeke kupu
98Untitled Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 December 1942, Page 3
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Times-Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in