OIL EXPORTS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 29 January 1940, Page 5

OIL EXPORTS

ASSURANCE BY RUMANIA NO INCREASE TO GERMANY I JAPANESE INTEREST IN EVENTS I I I [U.P.A.-By Electric Telegraph-Copyright] LONDON. 28th January. In Bucharest to-day the Foreign I Minister, Dr Gafencu, denied reports that Rumania is increasing her petroleum exports to Germany or discussing a guarantee pact with Germany and Russia. He added | that Rumania is only concerned n with fulfilling her undertakings i according to the treaties. It is also reported from Rome , that the Rumanian Minister of NaI tional Economy, M. Bujoiu, assured Mr R. W. A. Leeper, Counsellor to the British Diplomatic Service, that no country has asked for supplies of oil in excess of those prescribed by treaties, and gave him details of Rumania’s contracts to supply petroleum to foreign countries. ! The German Minister to Bucharest, who has returned from Berlin, is reported to have informed Rumanian officials that Germany’s attitude toward Rumania is not modified. Japan has heightened conjecture about Russian and German plans in the Balkans by calling a conference at Budapest of its Ambassadors from Rome, Berlin, Paris, and Ankara, all of whom are senior diplomats, and also from Berne and the south-eastern European capitals. The Budapest correspondent of “The Times” says authoritative sources assert that the chief item of discussion j will be the effect of Russian and German threats to the Balkans on Japanese foreign policy. Meanwhile Turkey continues her efforts to inject courage into the more timid of her neighbours. "SHOULD JOIN ALLIES” The Ankara newspaper "Yenisabah.* , says it would be better for the small neutral countries to link up with the Allies than await their turn to be invaded. Any self-respecting nation : which cherishes its freedom should imI mediately join the Allies, even if it is j not prepared to fight as heroically as j Finland. The Prime Minister of Turkey, Dr Saydam, said in an interview published in Istanbul, that while Turkey was doing all she could to prevent the war spreading to eastern Europe, no one I could be sure that it could be avoided, j In Budapest the Foreign Office spokesman said Hungarian policy reI garding Rumania was unchanged. Hun- ! gary was unable to forfeit her claims against Rumania, and the present complicated position was the only thing that prevented Hungary from asserting her rights. However, it is confidently expected that Rumania will try to reach a settlement.

SHORTENING FLYING TRAINING

USE OF INDOOR INSTRUCTION APPARATUS [British Official Wireless] RUGBY. 25th Januavr A new method of giving flying instruction of an elementary kind by the adaptation to this purpose of an apparatus known as the “link trainer.’* j hitherto only used as an aid in teach* ing blind-flying, is expected to shorten by one fifth the time required by | pupils to learn flying. I Seated in a cockpit mounted in a .-mall fuselage on a pedestal, the pilot ! can be given all the impressions of I flying in any conditions of weather and I with changing landscapes. This is done ! by induced movements corresponding i to those of the actual flight and by a | “cyclone” on the walls of the bare jrncular chamber in which the appaI ratus is installed. Indoor instruction by this method can proceed when outdoor conditions would render flying impossible and | valuable time would be lost. Driven | ny powerful bellows, the fuselage is j steered on its turntable through el! the motions of actual flight The take-off. climb, turns and banks are made. Flying on a given course, the pilot passes from sunshine to fog. skirts a large town, and finally reaches his objective. The indicators under the w-ings, nose, and tail record for the instructors information on exactly how much bank the pupil is applying, how far the nose is down or up. and whether he is keeping these elements steady.