A NEW BARGAIN?

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 21, 25 January 1940, Page 11

A NEW BARGAIN?

SOVIET AND NAZIS

CONTROL OF RAILWAYS

TRANSPORT OF OIL '\

(Daventry Broadcast.)

LONDON. Wednesday Night.

The Soviet Government as well tm the Nazis have found it necessary to deny that German troops are in <x>; cupation in parts of Galicia in Sovietoccupied Poland.. The official explanation is that they are merely arranging for the repatriation of Germans.

Nevertheless, persistent reports .that .. German troops are taking over control of the railways on the Rumanian ■ frontier with Germany are strengthened in a message' from Moscow which says that Germany has persuaded the Soviet not to change the gauge of this •" line. Since the Soviet occupation most of the gauges in the occupied territory have beeix changed to ,bring them into conformity with Russia's wide-gauge , railway lines. If it is.true-that Soviet i Russia has now yielded to,the German: desire, it will go a long way to establish the belief that some new bargain. - has been struck between the Nazis and the Soviet. This line,'which runs-,, from the Rumanian frontier into German-occupied territory, is the only ' means of transporting Rumanian oil supplies to Germany while the Danube is frozen. . " ■* Another new expedient ,of , Ger- ; many's in an attempt to get supplies from Russia is evidenced in the report that Lithuania has sighed sin agreement with Germany to allow, the Lithuanian railways to transport goods between Germany and Russia. It is reported that Lithuania is sending 100 of her trucks for coa^ for Germany.