Red-Nazi Moves In Ukraine Caucasus, Black Sea

Northern Advocate, 13 February 1940, Page 6

Red-Nazi Moves In Ukraine Caucasus, Black Sea

. LONDON'. February 12. 4 RUSSO-GERMAN AGREEMENT FOR MILITARY AND ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION IN THE UKRAINE, THE CAUCASUS AND THE BLACK SEA, IS DEMONSTRATED BY REPORTS FROM BLACK SEA PORTS AND POLAND, SAYS THE PARIS CORRESPONDENT OF “THE TIMES.”

German engineers are (.‘reeling fortifications at Odessa. Mariupol and Xovorossisk in the I’kraine, and at the Russian port of Batura, in the Caucasus.

Fresh Fortifications. Fresh fortifications are also being constructed on the Russo-Rumanian frontier across the River Dneister, evidently to protect the Baku-Kiev railway, along which war materials for the Finnish campaign and oil, manganese and copper for Germany are being transported. These fortifications also protect the Odessa-Lwow railway, alongwhich oil will be carried to Germany. German troops are stationed along- the line to prevent i sabotage. The departure of 2000 others from Poland to the Caucasus suggests that similar precautions are being taken on the Baku-Kiev railway. Black Sea Shipping. Germany is doing her utmost to reorganise shipping in the Black Sea. She is establishing ,a new organisation at Odessa to facilitate the transport of wheat from Novorossisk to Odessa, where she has been accumulating considerable stocks for months. Shipping services are .also planned to link up Poti, just north of Batum, and Braila, a Rumanian port near the mouth of the Danube, for the transport of chrome, and Braila, Trebizond and Batum for the carriage of hazel-' nuts, cotton and oil. Pressure on Rumania. German engineers have arrived at Varna, Bulgaria, to construct a vast oil reserve container, from which sup-, plies shipped from Batum can be railed through the Balkans to Germany. The Bucharest coi-respondent of “The Times" says Germany is reported to be pressing the Rumanian Government to centralise the marketing of eggs, hitherto left in the hands of private exporters, in order to secure greatly increased supplies, but many private exporters are unwilling to sell to her.