SOVIET GIVES NAZIS RIGHT TO WORK OIL FIELDS
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Paris, To-day.
THE SOVIET GOVERNMENT, it is sensationally disclosed, has granted Germany the rights to
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Republic and to export to Germany all petrol ob-
tained from the region in excess of the present production.
The Bashkir Republic lies between the Ural Moun- tains and the Volga River and when fully deve- loped, the oilfields there may furnish seven mil- lion tons of petrol yearly.
NAZIS TO STAGE A "TRIAL"
The Hague, To-day. Captain Best and Mr. Stevens, emissaries of the British Gov. ernment, who were kidnapped on Dutch territory by Nazį agents last year, are to be tried, It is re- ported, in a Berlin court early In March.
They will be charged simul- taneously with the German plum- ber, Elaer, who was arrested in connection with the Munich beer collar explosion.-Reuter.
In the meantime, expert observers, calculating-the-rate-of-German con- sumption since the war began, be- lieve that the present oil situation in Germany is about the same as at the Leginning of the war.
In September, it is estimated, Ger- many had a stock of about three mil- lion tons and has since imported fifty' thousands tons from Galicia aña three hundred thousand tons from Rumania, and from Russia (produced herself) about two million tons.
The German consumption in the six months of the war is estimated at 2,500,000 tons, of which a million tons went in the Polish campaign.- Havas.
NAVY MAN CHARGED
Able Seaman Hector MacMillan who failed to appear, had his bail of $20 estreated by Mr. R. Edwards, on a charge of being drunk and disorder- ly at the. Central Police Station last night.
New York, To-day. Long range defence of the Panama Canal will require at least double the present number of planes and guns.
This statement was made by President Roosevelt at a press conference aboard the cruiser Tuscaloosa, after he had com- pleted an inspection of the Canal defences.
The President said that planes were needed in order to dis- cover any attacking force at a greater distance than had hither- to been provided for.
Such a long-range programme envisaged defence operations ex- tending, if necessary, throughout Central America as far south as Ecuador, Columbia and Vene- zuela.
President Roosevelt is now going to Pensacola, Florida, aboard the Tuscaloosa.-Reuter.
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