GAINS FROM UKRAINE

Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 151, 28 June 1943, Page 4

GAINS FROM UKRAINE

GERMAN HARVEST PROSPECT NEW YORK, June 26. Provided their calculations are not upset by the summer'sv military operations, this year will be the first since they swept the area in 1941 that the Germans can be expected to derive any major benefits by their occupation of the Ukraine, says Mr. Carl Sulzberger in the "New York Times." "When (lie Germans took over the province nearly two years ago it was too late and too chaotic for them to secure any important food gains," he says. "The destruction wrought by war conditions, the disappearance of livestock and draught animals either by slaughter or evacuation, and the removal of most of the tractors under the scorched earth policy prevented the Axis from gathering any harvest "The prospects this year are far better from the German viewpoint. Climatically, June has been an excellent month. May provided heavy rains, making up for the exceptionally dry winter with light snowfalls, and harvests above the average are expected throughout Russia. While this helps unoccupied Russia, it will also unquestionably help Germany in some of the conquered areas. The organisation for occupation is more efficient now, after more than 18 months' tenancy of the major portion of the Ukraine."