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vv ?)-. v->-' ^£LIiGH/J,.l From Secreter^ of State
to Government of India, External Affairs
Deportment, ITo.£700, dated 2nd November,
1939.
Addressed bjr Secretary of State for India
to Government of India and repeated to
H.U. ’a Minister at Kabul and Governor of
Burma, Defence Department, No 0 458.
-A.
cfv
Following from Ministry of Information for publicity.
Interesting evidence effect of blockade on Germany's
economjr r comes irom iugoslavia where learnt excellent authority
is unaule supply textiles oi any kind, tin plates, or rubber
goods. Shortage oi las^ illustrated by fact that 125 lorries
delivered to Yugoslav army arrived without tyres.
Useful facts in this connexion are:-
gLik^dT^pods Germany imported 118 million Reichsmarks rubber in
1937o Entire supply now cut off. Buna substitute only covers
about one fifth of peacetime consumption.
i..i n yl-.sfp One third Germany's iron ore imports cut off by blockade.
Sweden supplies two thirds of remainder but could not cover even
Germany's peacetime * requirements.
Specially interesting as blockade has cut off German
export trade and should have left surplus equal to about one
third of total German production. Inability supply textiles
therefore presumably due shortage textile raw materials and
surplus stocks limited at outbreak war. Supplies of
cottori from Russia relatively inaccessible it is moreover
estimated that Germany's wartime requirements in cotton equal
two and a half times expected maximum Soviet output for 1942
Ends.