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—. —4 IMPORTANT CONFERENCE OF LEADERS. CONVENED BY MINISTER OF STATE. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) LONDON, May 10. It is disclosed that a conference is being held in the Middle East under the Minister of State, Mr Casey, and attended by General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, Commander-in-Chief, Middle East; General Lord Gort, Com-mander-in-Chief, Malta; General Sir Henry Pownall, Commander-in-Chief, Persia-Iraq; Air Chief Marshal Sir Sholto Douglas, Commander-in-Chief, Middle East Air Forces; the Governors of Cyprus, Aden and Palestine, the British Ministers to Iraq, Syria, Persia and Abyssinia, and others. More than 1,000,000 tons of shipping space was saved in the past year for military imports into the Middle East, a British Official Wireless message states. The saving has been achieved primarily by growing more grain in the Middle East, by converting coal-burn-ing machinery to oil-burning, by stimulating industrial production and by improving the import licensing machinery. This was announced at a meeting of the Middle East Supply Council in Cairo.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 May 1943, Page 3
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