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SNOW AIDS FINNS-Severe snowstorms aided Finns in gaining victories over Russian Russian troops in heavy fighting on Karelia Isthmus north of Leningrad. guns such as are shown above were used in attacks on. Finns.
Germany's Oil Shortage May
Tank Is Running Dry
Betray
By W. N. EWER "Daily Herald" Diplomatic Correspondent
GERMANY'S oil supplies} are going to be a crucial fac- tor in the war. Especially if, as Field-Marshal Goering threatens, she starts up al by hydrogenation. full-dress air offensive in the Spring.
i
#,000,000 tons from her own brown
Nazis
"Oh products" include petrol, parn- Mn, diesel engine oil, fuel of and lubricating oil as well as "crude."
Say, then, 6,500,000 tons as her nornial pre-war annual supply.
not all this was Probably sumed. Some went to build up a war reserve. Exactly how big that re- serve is k one of the unknown fac-
What is her position? Here is the best answer Lean, give to that very important question.
In 1933 Guiman imports of oil products totalled aboul 4.500.000 tons. In addition she produced about tors.
con-
GREAT YOUNG SAILOR COMES TO TOWN
How
war-time?
much can Germany get in
Except for n trickle that 5111 evades the blockade she is cut off from all seaborne supplies. That' leaves open to her Poland, Russia, Rumania,
Poland might provide a little. But the output of the Galician fields has become very nail.
I Germany can get 500,000 tons year from that source, it is an out- side figure.
Russia at the moment is, because
of transport difficulties, a practically negligible source of supply.
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Mr. Justice Avory passed sentence of fourteen yonta ponal servitude on Hinly, seven years' penal servitude on Dantis, Avo years on Dizon and three ye on Tabor.
5 YEARS AGO
Jan. 25, 1935. According to the "United Press," Chlace, troops have retirest to position Inside the Great Wall and the Japanese, whe yesterday were at grips with the garrien forces of Kuyaan and Tashi- kow, had taken up pose, outside the an-i cle buttress against barbarians,
"Central News" the Chinesa ngocy, rep further shelling of thinene potions and bombing by Japanese] Inges. These reports are not contrated by foreign press services.
Commenting on the Charhar situation, the "Times," according to Reuter, anys that while the incident was shil in itself, it indicates the inability of Janere plomacy to prevent the aul.
diers of the nation taking whatever action they deem appropriate.
Four Still Alive
Germans Take Captives In Heligoland
S、
Hamburg, Jan. 24. The radio to-day broadcast the
New railway tank waggons, new, Black Sea tankers, new Danube tugs and barges, might in time solve thot problem. But even 50 the Soviet Union needs all its own supplies; it names of four survivors from the has been able to export something three British submarines lost in the like 1,000,000 tons a year, but that Helgoland Bight recently. only at the price of running short at home.
Rumanin would normally be send- of HMS. Undine. Ing Germany about 1,400,000 tons a
year.
with
They are:
Lt. Comdr. A. S. Jackson, Captain.
Stoker Archibald Savage of H.M.S.
A BRAVE boy who is, also a fine seaman, walked into the Admiralty the other day, shook hands with the number of high officials and received their congratula-river transport the Agure has dropped H.M.S. Undine.United Prest.
tions.
But the bulk of this supply Starfish, has always been seabome.
I torced to use
startlingly.
the sea shut and the trade Starch.
and congested rail
With great exer-
Stoker Ronald Hawkins of HM.S.
Telegraphist J. C, S. Beresford of
Trawler Believed Lost
London, Jan, 24.
Cut By Half.
The Lowestoft_trawler_New Hayen, Ho-was-18-year-old-Malcolm-Morrison, fisher-lad In September-only-about-80,000 |
as failed to return from a shing from the northern island of Lewis: the lad who sailed atous got through.
tion and great difficulty, the figure clp. She is a week overdue,
It is feared that she
may have boat for six days after his ship had been sunk by tor-was raised in nearly 85,000 for De-
struck a mine and sunk without cember. pedoes in the Atlantic.
came the frost blockade. leaving a trace.
She carried a crew of nine-leu- Five men who were with him in the boat owe their lives to the figure for January and February is likely to be under 30,000 tons à Malcolm's feat of seamanship.
month.
It was to receive official re-, who seemed to know anything about calling, and I kept my hand on the cognition of this that he was tiller all the time. called to Whitehall.
Oceans Called
Nover Slept
Then
Total imports then for the first six months of war will probably be under 400,000 tons from Rumania; will probably be well under 1,000,000 tons from all sources.
That seems an absolutely outside gare, and is less than half nor- mal.
Mr. Churchill was too busy to see him: otherwise, this modest, red-
"I might have dozed off now and checked son of the sea might have again, but I never really slept. If I shaken hands with the First Lord had, I don't know what would have
Hydrogenation is being developed himself.
happened to us.
and may make up the deßetency by They culled me skipper and say another 200,000 or 300,000 tons
for the hait year. onetimes 'chief."
But hydrogenation cannot provide "Mest of the men slept ng we drifted and were perished with cold. the higher grade lubricating oils-a very serious consideration where was half frost-bitten. "One night we sighted a neutral aviation is concerned, ship, but she did nal answer our flares. Next day a convoy failed to How far economies In "normal" see our signals.
consumption can make up for the additional consumption due to war activities is quite impossible to gauge accurately.
Malcolm went fishing in a herring drifter when he left school, but the wider, oceans called him, so he en fered the Merchant Navy as a sea- I
inali.
His knowledge of all things nautical was such that he soon found himselt an A.B.. and he had that rating in the 4.915-ton Londen steamer Arling ton Court when war broke out.
In November a U-bont sank the vessel, and Morrison and five ship- mates found themselves adrift in an open bont,
The boy said to a reporter: "High seas were running when we started
"For two more days we sighted no ships and I was getting anxious about the water supply.
"I think I'll give the sea a rest for
Spring Crisis
"We struck stormy weather again There are therefore, too many and I reckoned we were about 200 doubtful factors for any precise cal- miles from land when wo were culations. picked by a Norwegian tanker But there is quite enough evidence and landed in England,
to make it certain that by spring oil shortage will be a serious factor, and that it is a shortage which will in- crease month by month, great military and air exertions are made. Tho "war reserves" are there. But once they are drawn on they will not last very long.
up our six days" search for land. a bit. I'll stay on land and de a bit
"I was the only use in the boat
of training as a garage mechanic."
'We don't mind cold
Then go to Finland
STOCKHOLM, Jan. 8.
THE FIRST FOUR American volunteers for Finland have; arrived in Stockholm, and to-day they attended a cocktail party given by Mr. Hallett Johnson, Counsellor to the American Em- bassy. They were the star turn of the party, with their smart new silver-buttoned uniforms and shiny Sam Brownes,
Twenty-four-year-old Robert New-; week. Two hundred Americans backi man said: "We were an ambulance there in France may follow us. unit in the French Army on the
Western Front. Technically, we are 1 um Irish-American. When the still under the discipline of the War started. I thought "What is war French Army, but there not being without the Irish in 17 and joined many lives to save on the Western Front we were given' leave.
the French,"
Is three companions are blond "One day they were asking who aged
Louls Bartlett, leader of the party.
twenty-five; black-bearded} minded the cold. We four were the William Marks, aged twenty-seven, Arst to say we didn't, so here we professor at an American University; are, with two, Ilght ambulances. and slight, fair Jack Haney, aged
We are leaving for Finland this twenty-four, a Jewel expert.
The
best Information available would suggest something ilke three months as an approximate estimate.
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