Washington, July 20.
According to the Munitions Control Board, U.S. exports of arms mud munitions during the month of June this year amounted to $8,160,661.
The largest purchaser was Great Britain with $3,589,013 followed by France with $2,548,962. Rumania was third with $835,000, followed by Peru with $189,969, the Netherlands East Indies and Holland with $173,337, Siam with $144,871, Argentina with $118,825, Finland with $86,253 and Mexico with $65,655. Most of these sums were used in the purchase of planes and spare parts.
Export licences granted during June amounted to $17,301,620. France led with $15,246,310. Of this amount $12,954,000 were for planes and spare parts.
It was revealed that export licences to France during the first six months of 1939 amounted to $36,242,250. However, only $0,187,557 of material STANDARD OPTICAL CE, 297 Nanking Read, Tel. 97026 has been despatched so far to that country.—Havas,
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