Washington, Mar. 3.
Trade experts here today expressed doubt regarding Soviet Russia's Genial published by the State Department Saturday that imports from the United States and the Philippines, "including oil products," were being re-exported to Germany, M, Constantine Oumansky, Soviet Ambassador to Washington, had assured Mr. Sumner Welles, Under-
Secretary of State, that such imports "are destined exclusively for domestic needs in the Soviet Union,"
But commodity specialists remained especially dubious regarding such Soviet imports as coconut oil and copra, which Russia imported in sudden great qtiantities from both the Philippines and the United States.
The experts pointed out that Russia secures the bulk of her oil needs for cooking from sunflower seeds which are grown throughout Russia and industrial oils from flax seeds which are also widely cultivated in Russia, They said that Russia has none of the complicated milling machinery needed to' crush copra. into coconut oil, They also added that Germany, on the other hand, has such conversion plants.
Moreover, they continued, Russia has nitrate supplies for the manufacture of gunpowder and does not need coconut oil for such uses, while Germany has a deficiency in such products,—United Press, Japanese Threat to
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