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...ships have docked at Suez and Murmansk, at Sidney and at Reykjavik. Convoys have steamed through, without a loss, to Ireland and Australia...
...succeeding four months, when they averaged about 500,000 tons a month. But certainly 241 ships lost in 137 days of war meant that losses were well over replacements, since ship production has averaged little more than one a day. And losses on other sea fronts, the Murmansk route and the Pacific, must be figured in to tip the balance even more unfavorably...
...Hottest thing on seven seas" is the Arctic supply route to Russia, said a British seaman named Edward S. Phillips last week. He was just back from convoying supplies to Murmansk. "Ships sailing to or from Murmansk," he said, "go into action almost the first day out against surface craft and submarines." Confirming such accounts of Arctic peril, the Admiralty announced loss of the 10,000-ton cruiser Edinburgh and four merchant ships as the result of enemy attacks on two convoys plying the North Cape route. Yet Winston Churchill (see p. 26) was able to announce that, despite some...
...supply line to the northern front; 2) clear direct communications to Finland; 3) penetrate the Russian right flank, making the menace to Moscow even graver than last year's; 4) prepare for supplying and manning a major offensive to cut Russia's vital, northern supply line via Murmansk...
There was urgency about this, the only significant action on the Russian front last week. Only by shoving the Finns back could the Russians free the southern end of the Murmansk-Leningrad railroad and ensure the swift flow of goods from the Arctic port to the Baltic battlefront...