London, Jan. 26. British naval circles today strongly the ruse to hide the fact that the 10,000- ton German vessel was sunk by British submarines—United Press, consider it certain that the wer will degenerate into a war for the Near East, and military operations into the Caucasus, Iraq, Persia and Arabia. "This is a warning to England and France," the paper declares. "Turkish fri is never more valuable. Everywhere, the Allied Governments must act only is in fun with Ankara." 7 in a partly censored, says that recent 1 of export figures shew that: for 83000 tons of oil shipped te Germany, 203,000 more are shipped to other countries via Constanza. This comparison, the paper adds, shows. that Germany. cannot hope dominate the Rumanian oil market, ani gives some idea of the importance. of Constanza, which is closed to Germany by the blocked
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