London, Nov. 2.
In a broadcast last night Mr. R. H. Cross, Minister of Economic Warfare, revealed that seizures of goods destined for Germany had now comfortably exceeded 500,000 tons, including petrol, iron, aluminium, copper and phosphates, This, he said, was only a small Proportion of Germany's real losses as a result of British mastery of the seas, because many oversea shippers had not even attempted to send goods to Germany.
Referring to Nazi complaints that the British contraband control was inhumane, Mr. Cross declared that only 14 per cent. of the total seizures would normally be classified as food, including nine per cent. of oils and fats which Germany could use equally easily for munitions or food.
In this connection the Minister recalled that German leaders had ready decided that guns were preferable to butter.
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