Late News BLOOD AND OIL
Reported Nazi Demands On Rumania
SHORTAGE OF PETROL?
(Received January 15, 1.30 a.m.) LONDON, January 14
According to Scandinavian telegraph agency reports from Berlin, Rumanian blood and oil were the two main demands Herr Hitler presented to General Antonescu, says Reuter's Stockholm correspondent. All reports about the meeting stress its importance.
This is regarded in Stockholm as a sure indication that shortage of petrol, particularly lubricating oil reserves, is worrying Hitler more and more. The Telegraph Agency’s Berlin correspondent. says bluntly it would hardly be premature to assume that oil was the chief subject of negotiations. The Germans have often emphasized that the Rumanian troops are a valuable contribution on the eastern front. It may be assumed that a maximum concentration of Rumanian forces will follow immediately and the new divisions will (possibly be sent to the eastern front.
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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 94, 15 January 1943, Page 5
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