FUEL PROBLEM

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 24009, 5 July 1941, Page 11

FUEL PROBLEM

'GERMANS' DIFFICULTY ENORMOUS CONSUMPTION MECARIOCS FACTOR SOON M S ; , . \ , LONDON, July 4 Further evidence that the Gernans by no means have gained universal air superiority over the battlefields is given by a despatch from the German Information Bureau. Describing the fighting in the Luck-Dubno region, it says: ''While the Soviet armoured forces, including extra heavy tanks, rolled forward from all directions, Soviet ftsroplanes attacked the Germans Bnceasingly." The Stockholm correspondent of the Times attaches much significance to the •bore-mentioned despatch, and says Soviet reports show that the Germans are experiencing difficulties in bringing up supplies of liquid fuel for their armoilred forces in the T>vinsk and Minsk and that the armoured forces •rn thereby delayed. This appears likely won to become one of tho most precarious factors in the Gorman position. Question of Finding Petrol

The Red Army's stubborn and thus lir effective resistance, says the correspondent, has thrown the whole German" calculations out of gear. The expenditure of fuel in this continual manoeuvring and fighting is so enormous that there are some indications that it is already, or is rapidly becoming, not merely a question of bringing U P fuel but of finding fuel. The total "weight the German pressure does not appear to bo increasing. The Germans have made relatively little territorial progress this week, apart from the Baltic operatiorfs. A report from the Independent French Agency on the frontier states is estimated that the Germans have withdrawn half the';r force from occupied France and havle also sent many tanks and guns to the Russian front. Germans Behind Schedule

The German losses in men and materials lave been tremendous, according to in American radio commentator in THrrkoy. He states that Germans in Ankara are anxious because the German advance is far behind schedule. At first jfc was said that it would take two or three weeks, but now it is •stated that it will require two or three months. When & German ammunition train *4B blown up the forest on both sides the track was set on fire. BRITISH MISSION JOURNEY TO MOSCOW, . . . . ISTANBUL, July 3 A British mission to Russia, comprisS' two military experts, two econo--AhIT ara from Cairo on tho way to ."f 0 *- ne of the economists is an jouty on the Rumanian oilfields. Uv- ov ' e t Ambassador to Turkey, da'v lno K r adolF, who arrived on TuesWitl u* 11 Moscow, conferred at length coeiu th i® F°reign Minister, M. SaraKrarliitf 13 Relieved that M. Vinotad n ? G P. oate d assurances that Russia "° de S'Bns on tho Dardanelles.

ITALIANS INSPECTED *L*??. ROME. July 3 feininir ♦Hi 1^ spected a " army division Ge trnans against Russia. hono ° r ,o fieht