The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-10-28
German Threat
To Doneis-Don
Areas Is Grave

Areas Is Grave
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now - material ard equipment.
Russia win n, have e~ea Knocked
cut - an effective nghtins fcfce
against the Germans
Il = |. Tremendous task and is
likely 70 prove ths supreme test
FOR Russia TIE soviet unicns
position = ss felloss
Entirely aside from heavy les.es
IN skilled fighting men. the Mar
IN western Russia In II weeks ~
fighting has proved . COLOSSAL
drain on Russian resources Losses
II tanks. srttitsFy slrrisn~~
trucks and ether equipment have
heen - great that n proh.hiy has
been all Russia could do 10 Keep
pace with rrrlseements. Nov the
bulk Of her industry either has
heen taken a. 10 lmminently
threatened
NEEDED RAW MATERIALS
IN Do>ETs-DoN AREA
About 90 per cent of Russian
heavy industry. Plus . large per.
eentsge IN some cases much more
than half OF some Of her essential
raw materials lie IN the ponsts-
Don ARA. n includes coal. iron
aluminium and mans anese. 10 name
a few.
Another 40 per cent 81 Industrial
production 10 concentrated In the
l.eningrad and Moscow srsss.
That leaves about 20 per cent m
the urals and beyond. resources
which Russia has heen developing
on a large scale fer more than
10 years Britain and the United
States. when their material aid
10 In FUN flow. might make up an.
other 20 per cent. leaving Russia
with half her rre-~sr potential
The situation In the Ukraine
looks dark AZ this nneture, Mos
COW and LeninErsd still stand. hut
they are being stormed by the
enemy. and even n they do not
fall. they may assume the status
Of cities under siege for the win
ter. Under such circumstances,
their productive capacity would b
curtsiled.
GERMANS GET LITTLE
OUT or CoNQUEsTs
For Russia. the only comfort IN
the picture 10 the fact that the
Germans have got little out Of
their conquests which they could
adapt 10 their own uses and throw
against the remainder ~ Russia
As the latter rttreated. they de-
stroyed nearly everything which
would 10 n us. 10 tho enemy
Mines we're wrecked or flooded
factories destroyed and powei
dams put out of commission.
As much machinery. tools an
AZ many skilled workers - pos
sihls were evacuated eastward q
: reinforce the produce oentcrs u
; the urais. The Germans are no
likely 10 get any production worti
while out Of occupied Russia b.
fore next year al the earliest.
The Germans now seem driving
for the Caucasus oil fields. 4
they take Rostov. they will have
captured the only pipslins north
ward from those fields. severina
Ruasias most convenient and 81.
fieisnt source Of supply.
CAN TRANs-sHIP OIL
ACROSS THE CASPIAN
Russia can trsns-ship OIL across
the Caspian Ia As'rskhan and
Guriey on the north shore. shs
has additional fields around Gu
REV. with pipelines running north
ward into the interior, Further
supplies could be made syalisbis
by the British from fraq and from
the iranisn fields. Russia 10 moi
likely 10 perish for want of cil.
II the Germans capture the pipe
line At Rost0y. naturally no oil
will b. coming through II for thsis
use. n they push on the AsfrH-
khan 10 cut off tho Caucasus and
thsn drive south against the oil
fieids. they probably would find
nothing but wrecked pipslines
wells and refinsriss which thsy
could not use for . long tins u
come.
The Germans nevertheless wsnl
those fisidsL Should tina bsstis
turn In that direction. !, would
not BE- surprising To find = Bifisf
expedition fighting alongside IN
Russians TO save the fields.
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