RUSSIAN SETBACKS.
NAZI ECONOMY PREJUDICED
(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Eeb. 19.
Informed London circles express the opinion that the Nazi Government cannot view the Finnish army’s heroic resistance to the Russian invasion with any pleasure, considering the effects of the Rnsso-Finnish war on Germany’s wartime economy. Russian oil, metal, and textiles which might have been available to Germany are likely to be absorbed in supplying the Russian armies, while railway rolling stock is being diverted northward thus making transport to Germany more difficult. Germany, has difficulty in obtaining Russian phosphates, in which she is quite deficient. She will also sadly miss her annual shipment of 14.000 tons of copper from Finland. The Nazis must realise that peaceful trade could liave been easily developed with Finland, which has been described as a veritable mineral storehouse.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 71, 21 February 1940, Page 9
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