GERMAN ECONOMY AFFECTED
PROLONGED RESISTANCE OF FINNS ABSORPTION OF RUSSIA'S WAR SUPPLIES [ British Official Wiiciese ] RUGBY, Feb. 20. ; Informed London circles express ( the opinion that the Nazi Government < cannot view the Finnish army’s heroj.- ■ resistance to the Russian invasion with any pleasure, considering the j effects of the Russo-Finnish war on Germany’s economy. Russian oil, metal, and textiles,! which might have been availaole 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 supplies of which she is deficient. She will also sadly miss her . annual shipment of 14,000 tons of I copper from Finland. The Nazis must realise that peaceful trade could have been easily de-; \ eloped with Finland, which has been 1 described as a veritable mineral storehouse.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 84, Issue 44, 22 February 1940, Page 10
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