Figures Reveal Important Result of Swing to Axis Bucharest, Sept. 18.
Rumanian oil exports to Germany and her protectorates have more than doubled in the last two months compared with monthly average exports to Germany during the first ten months of the war.
This is one of the first and most important results of Rumania's swing te an alliance with the Axis.
Average exports from September, 1939 to July, 1940 were /70,000 tons. The July figure jumped to'80,000 and and the August total to 200,000 tons. One-third was sent to Germany by rail and two-thirds by the Danube.
Germany's synthetic plants cannot produce more than 300000 tons a year, hence the importance of Rum-anion supplies. Thus, on the British side, the bombing of Regensburg. which is one of the main collecting ports on the Danube, is a matter of vital importance.
it is understood a vast plan is under consideration for further increasing railway transport facil to Germany.—Reuter.
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