QUICKEST WAY TO GOAL
CUTTING OFF SOVIET
OIL
LONDON, August 11. Negley Farson, in an article in the "Daily Mail," points out that it is not necessary for Field-Mar-shal yon Bock to drive his force* across the great Caucasian Mountains. The Nazi commander can cut off th« Russians from their absolutely essential source of fuel oil first by smashing through the remaining .40 or 50 miles from the Don bend to the Volga at Stalingrad, and, secondly, by striking swiftly to the Caspian Sea across the neck of Caucasia.German air bases, if established at Makhach Kala, could command the Caspian, which is only 170 miles wide there, and dive-bomb every vessel attempting to carry oil to the north for the Russians. , German shore batteries at Stalingrad could sink oil tankers and food barges trying to struggle up the Volga against the strong current on the thin Stretch of the river.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 37, 12 August 1942, Page 5
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