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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 230, 26 June 1944, Page 6

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Germany’s Fuel Stocks

(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, June 23. Tiie Allied bombing of oil refineries in Germany, the blockade, and the increased intensity of the fighting on three fronts have cut the Germans’ oil production from 15,060,000 to 5,000,000 tons a year, according to a spokesman of the Ministry of Economic Warfare. Petrol production is less than 50 per cent, of the armed forces’ requirements. Though domestic consumption of liquid fuel has been cut to the bone in Germany, further economies affecting dodoi”?, diplomats, and others were ordered recently. Petrol supplies amounting to 90 per cent, went to the armed forces. Germany’s stocks of fuel have been cut to the irreducible minimum. Germany’s industry generally is -also on the down grade, due to a variety of factors. It is likely that production will continue on a downward grade with increased speed and that the fruits of five years of blockade and economic warfare may become even more apparent on the battlefield this summer. German industrialists are stated to be in a very pessimistic mood.