THROUGH BLOCKADE.
TWO ITALIAN TANKERS. AXIS HAS NEED FOR OIL. (Rec. 11.45 a.m.) LONDON, July 31. After running the blockade in the Mediterranean, two Italian tankers, Alvaro and Mayo, arrived ill the Bosphorus and immediately sailed for Varna under a Gennan air escort. The Istanbul correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph” says that the risks taken by these ships recall tho failure of a similar attempt last month, when a British submarine smashed an Italian convoy and the Strombo took refuge at Istanbul. Those facts suggest that the Axis stocks of oil are being drained desperately low and must be increased at whatever risk. The fact that the Alvaro and Mayo are proceeding to Varna instead of to Constanza is believed to corroborate tho Russian statement that the Constanza harbour is utterly unuseable, also that the Ploesti oilfields have been wrecked and Rumanian communications seriously dislocated.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 248, 1 August 1941, Page 5
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