VITAL AID
GIVEN TO SOVIET UNION UNDER AMERICAN LEND-LEASE PROGRAMME. WAR & INDUSTRIAL SUPPLIES. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.57 a.m.) RUGBY. June 14. Lend-lease is providing Russia with vital assistance in the field of industry and agriculture, says the United States Lend-Lease Administrator. Mr Stettinius, in a report on such shipments during the nineteen months ended on April 30 last. The most important single contribution is completed weapons—tanks, planes and guns—in thousands. These have been shipped over a variety of routes and many planes have been flown all the way or have been assembled en route, after being delivered part of the way in American ships. Against the enemy they have made themselves felt effectively. A close second has been the raw materials shipped, fabricated into weapons by Russia’s industrial plants.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 June 1943, Page 4
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