SIGN OF DESPERATE AXIS OIL NEED
Tankers Run Mediterranean Blockade LONDON, July 31. After running the Mediterranean blockade, the two Italian tankers Alvaro and Mayo have arrived in the Bosphorus, where they were joined by a Bulgarian minesweeper. They immediately sailed for Varna under a German air escort. The Istanbul correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph” says that the risks taken. by these ships recall the failure of a similar attempt last month, when a British submarine smashed an Italian convoy and the Strombo took refuge in Istanbul. These facts suggest that oil stocks iu the Axis are draining desperately low, and must be increased whatever the risk. The fact that the Alvaro and the Mayo are proceeding to Varna instead of to Constanta is believed to corroborate the Russian statement that Constanta harbour is utterly unusable, and also that the Ploesti oilfields are wrecked and the Rumanian communications seriously dislocated.
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 263, 2 August 1941, Page 9
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150SIGN OF DESPERATE AXIS OIL NEED Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 263, 2 August 1941, Page 9
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