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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 19, 1941.

ECONOMIC RUIN FOR GERMANY IN RUSSIAN WAR

UNLESS GERMANY overruns Russia in a matter of days and Russian technicians and ad- ministrators fail to destroy or remove agricultural stocks in the Ukraine and oil equipment in the Caucuses, even if the Nazis are quickly victorious the economic consequences of Germany's latest in- vasion are likely to be disastrous for at least a year to come, it was asserted in London by an authority on Russian trade.

"Most persons assume that Hitler ordered the drive on Russia because of economic needs," the authority said. "I do not think so.'

The first major blow to Ger- many's economy in the new at- tack, he said, was the loss of goods from Russia proper, such as end and rotton, which had been delivered under the Hiter-Stalin trade part, and also other mater- rals such as vital fats which had been trans-shipped to Germany via the Pacific and across Siberia. The war's outbreak halled all such trade-

is generally believed, the

"

Vivien Lalgh and Laurence Olivier, starred with Losile Banke at the King's Theatre in Columbia's "21 Days To- gether," are shown above in

a scene from the exciting new romantic drama, which la based upon a John Galsworthy novel.

SOVIET CIVILIANS

HAILED FOR

ACTS OF HEROISM

expert continued, that Hitler seek. RUSSIA'S HERO for June was young Uladim to conquer Russia so as icon-Shchevchenko, fighter pilot of the Red air fleet, trol the gram of the Ukraine and who was credited with shooting down twenty-two The and of Baku, But if Russian German bombers during a series of intense air

defenders can look up

Nazi

advance in the Ukraine for from Mix to eight weeks, the Nazi will

get none of this year's crops, he

asserted. And if Russia's retreat

ing armies take care to destroy

battles on the Lwow front.

He was singled out for special mention in the official communique, which paid tribute to other members of the Russian armed forces and to citi- zens who had performed special feats in beating equgment of the Caucuses, Hitler, back the German attackers.

and remove oil stocks and to re-

o destroy

oil-well

will be able to get virtually no petroleum from that source for year, he predicted

Easy To Destroy

The greatest bar to German use

of the Ukrame's tremendous farm

lands, should

they be captured,

the expert reported, was the ex-| tent of Soviet agricultural collec-|

UNFIT MEN IN

THE ARMY

The child heroes of the

day were a group of youngsters at an unspecified point along the Lwow ailroad. They were said to have seen the crew of a damaged Ger- man bomber land

and to have given authorities, who

Nazis,

in the woods the alarm to the captured

Another hero was Junior Lieu-

commander of

tiveness. South Russia's agricul- CRITICISM OF THE ACCEP. tenant Solovyev, ture does not operate on the in-TANCE OF UNFIT MEN FOR Russian bomber that was at- dividual farmer basis

in ARMY SERVICE AND

tacked THE

by five Messerschmitts. America, but by planning

and ISSUE TO THEM OF PAY AL- The bomber was damaged, but control of the state over a whole LOWANCES "FOR

Lieutenant Solovyev managed to LONG area, Oil for tractors and other PERIODS" · PENDING

evade his attackers and land the! DIS- machinery is centrally distribut- CHARGE IS MADE IN THE RE- 'plane safely. ed. If machines were to be PORT OF THE COMPTROLLER wrecked by retreating Soviet arm-¡ AND AUDITOR-GENERAL ON ies and oil stocks destroyed, there THE ARMY APPROPRIATION would not be enough horses and ACT, 1939. other livestock left for the Nazis to operate the farms to any ad vantage, the authority declared.

Advantages To Blockade

Germany's outlook for obtain- ing needed minerals in south Rus- sia is also small, it was declared, and even if the Nazis penetrated into the Urals they could seize little if the Russians removed the| key managerial staffs. Thus, it

is was concluded, there

little likelihood of great German econo- mic advan'age in any Russian conquest for an entire year.

To sink new oll wells if the old onea are destroyed would; take as much as twelve months, he explained, chiefly because Germany lacks the equipment. He doubted that even American oll men would be able to restore completely a wrecked field in less than that time, He noted that it took but two weeks to destroy Rumanian oil wells in advance of German eclzure in 'the World War.

The advantages to the British blockade of Germany contained

In the new Nazl move, however,

a

Private's Feat

Mention was given to Private Bensukov of the Red Army. He "During the early months of the war," says the report, "many was surrounded by Germans for men, who were accepted following bullet wounds, but continued to three days and suffered many cursory preliminary medicgi examination, were later found to fight, although bleeding badly. For be unfit for military service, and three days he was said to have were sent home to await the nor-

crawled from position to position, mal examination by a medical continuing to fire upon the Ger- board before discharge. periods elapsed before

mans, until he managed to rejoin Long the men

his unit. were examined and there were Another

was Lieutenant further delays before discharges Podryatov, fighter pilot, who was forced down in German territory. were confirmed.

He was reported lost, but twenty- four hours later flew back to his home aerodrome, having repaired his 'plane.

"These delays resulted in pay and allowances being issued for as long as three or four months to men who apparently should not have been accepted for service."

Remedial measures with a view to expediting discharges were now Office, it was added. under consideration by the War

HOUSES

LOW BUT

HEARTS ARE HIGH

The communique cited a woman collective farmer named Sarea- fanenko who was on duty in a village soviet when a German bomber came down 'near by: The German crew tried to hide in a rye field, the communique said. But she organised a group of farmers, who captured five Gèr- man airmen and turned them over to the milltary..

Rail Thrill

On the Black Sea coast, the communique sald, six collective farmers saw a damaged German flying boat come down on the sea. They set out in a fishing. boat and captured five airmen

.

are considerable, It was said. "THEIR HOUSES ARE LOW, who were trying to get away in a The Siberian leak of goods BUT THEIR HEARTS ARE rubber boat. through the blockade. had given HIGH," BAID MR. WINSTON The Moscow radio reported that Germany 400,000 tons a year of CHURCHILL OF PLYMOUTH dassengers of a railroad train oil seeds for fats, plus much- PEOPLE AFTER HE AND MRS. helped in the capture of six Ger needed› rubber. From Russia CHURCHILL HAD MADE A man parachutists. They noticed a proper, Germany has received con- TWENTY MILE TOUR OF THE plane circling suspiciously. "Six siderably more than a half mil-] CITY'S BOMBED AREAS."

men jumped by parachute: The

lion tonga year of lubricating "I admire the way in which train was stopped and six Ger- and Diesel oil and 100,000 tons a Plymouth is standing up to it," mans were captured. They: were" year of cotton, also important to he told the "Daily Mirrored found, it was "said, to bó armed Germany's war machine.

People salvaging oddments from with revolvers, train-wrecking, the ruins of their homes cheered Instruments und shears for cut- Pending the forthcoming con- wildly as the Premier rode slowly ting telegraph wires. versations - between Russian and by, standing in his car, h

To British economic experts, London People stood", In front of the

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offelals: declined to discuss just bombed houses where they had Mr. Churchill nodded and smiled. "what" material aid Britain could lived." "Give the Jerries hell," Hit "God bless you all," he called to

ive Russia in the war.

{'em hard and often," they shouted, theme:

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