All interest is now centred on the question how far the Russo-German agreement, with its promised. supply of Russian war materials against German manufactures, may affect the progress of the war. The question of transporting huge quantities of Russian raw materials over long distances overland presents one difficully. Another is Russia's own internal requirements, particularly in oil, the increased output of which in the past eight years has been. fully absorbed by home demand.
Apart from practical considerations, the view is. widely held that Russia expects the war to culminate in a revolution in Germany, whereupon she will make her rear a Communist state. The question then is whether Russia' would like to see Germany collapse quickly or, by partially Moscow, Sept. 29. While she retains the East Galician oit fields of Poland, Soviet Russia loses practically all of the Polish industrial areas to Germany, accord+ ing to a new demarcation agreement signed tonight -by M. Viacheslav Molotoff and Herr Joachim yot Ribbentrop, respectively Soviet and German Foreign Ministers.
The temporary demarcation line established in Poland on September 22, shortly after the first entry of Soviet troops, is rather substantially altered by the final treaty signed tonight. New Soviet-German fron: tiers in Polish territory follow more Pictures of War Scenes.
In London, Paris 7" On Page 7 we reproduce for the first time in Shanghai photographs of scenes in London and Paris as the British and French Governments made their momentous decisions to fight German aggression.
The pictures were radioed from London to New York and from there to San Francisco from where they were flown to the Far East. On September 22 the "North-China Daily News" carried a full page of war pictures from Poland transmitted by the same method. closely ethnical divisions in the land, and the U.S.S.R. obtains rule over all Ukrainians and White Russians while the Reich secures sway over territory the population of which is of purely Polish stock, Adolf Hitler gets back the important towns of Llublin, whic: served a while as the Polish. capital, and Siedlce, both of which at boom ceded temporarily to Russia.
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