Nevertheless, Londoners go about with an air of expectancy—waiting, waiting. You roam the streets in U.S. Oil Exports to Be Restricted Washington, June 21.
President Roosevelt has directed the Export Control Administrator to place restrictions on all oil products, it was disclosed by the White House today. A plan will be prepared, it is announced, for the most effective use of tanker facilities in supplying petroleum to the eastern seaboard and to other American Republics. The President has acted apparently owing to the threatened shortage of oil and petroleum on the East Coast on account of lack of transportation resulting from the transfer of tankers to Britain.—Reuter. ihe black-out and you see only faint lights in the intersections. Church steeples stand out against the sky like tombstones in a graveyard Some churches are only shells of the last blitz.
Your heels click against the sidewalk, and the echoes bounce back írom the buildings across the street. There is no noise. All is quiet as a London, June 21.
British. Allied and neutral shipping losses during the month of "May totalled 98 ships grossing 461398 tons—the fourth worst month of the war—according to an announcement by the Admiralty yesterday.
April was the worst month of the war when shipping losses totalled 134 ships grossing 581,251 tons. Throughout the war, the monthly average has been 319,157 tons, Losses during April included shipping sunk during the Greek campaign while losses in May included those ships sunk during the Battle of Crete—United Press,
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