Tokyo, Mar. 29, Fearing for their supplies in oil from Black Sea sources, the Soviets fare feverishly developing fields in North Saghalien, the Shimbun" learns. The goal of all production from that source in the coming year has been put at 400,000 fons, it is reported. To do this, a pipe-tine is under construction on the north-western coast of Saghalien.
Meanwhile, the Soviet Union is importing huge quantities of petro-Joum from the United States, the "Hochi" reports. Crew members of the s. Kebi Maru, which docked at Toukuga said they had. seen man3 Soviet and American oil tankers Vladivostok. The "Hochi" "estimates that approximately 2,140,000. drums have been shipped to that port from the United States since September Growing unrest in the Black Sea region where the principal Soviet oil fields are situated, and the possibility that the United States may refuse oil, lo the USSR. are seen by. the "Hochi* as" two reasons forthe unusual activity of Russian Far Bast ern all fields, not to speak of the possibility that Germany may need a large part of the Soviet output!
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