OIL PITS MUST BE SEALED
• . "NEW RUSSIAN ORDER MOSCOW, 27th March. "lndustria,” the oclal organ of Russian heavy industries, announces that the Baku oilfields must complete plans for sealed storage of all oil and petrol this year. The present practice of storinn oil in open pits is forbidden. The official organ of Soviet shipping reports that 11,000 workmen are improving the Dneiper and Bug River canal system with the object of increasing the trade turnover with Germany, and that 18.000 will soon be
working. Oil, salt, grain, and coal will be the main freight along the canals.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 5 April 1940, Page 6
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