ROUMANIA’S OIL

Grey River Argus, 14 May 1943, Page 2

ROUMANIA’S OIL

POSSIBILITY OF ALLIED ATTACK. (Rec. 7.40) LONDON, May. 13. Mr. Negley Farson, in an article--in the “Daily Mail” says: “Now. that his armies are hurled from Africa, 1 believe that Hitler is most afraid that the Russians and British and Americans will seize or put out of action the Rumanian oilfields. To be deprived of Rumanian oil is one thing that would defeat Germany, but maybe not immediately; because even now Germany has considerable reserves of oil. It would be much more within the lines of Russian and British-American strategy to attack Rumanian oil than to storm the heavily fortified coastline of France, to invade Italy in an attempt to strike across the mountain passes to France! and Austria, or to try to hit Germany through Scandinavia. “I believe that the present, heavy concentration of Russian and German troops on their southern front inchcates that oil is the key to the whole conflict. It is unlikely that either the Germans or the Russians will ever again have .the fighting power of this summer. Whoever strikes must strike for his final and ultimate objectives unless there is to be a stalmate.