SUPPLIES FOR MALTA
THOUSANDS OF TONS LANDED BIG CONVOY REACHES PORT SAFELY. ' DOCK WORKS SET NEW RECORD. LONDON, February 17. A correspondent at Malta reports the safe arrival of thousands of tons of food, ammunition, petrol and other supplies in one of the biggest convoys sent to the island since the war began. To celebrate the occasion, Maltese dock workers set up new records. While Spitfires roared overhead and defence units manned the anti-aircraft guns, the dockers worked day and night in unloading the stores at an average rate of nearly three tons a minute for nearly a week.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 February 1943, Page 4
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99SUPPLIES FOR MALTA Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 February 1943, Page 4
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