Blockage of Danube by Ice Hinders German Trade
BUCHAREST, Jan. 2. The Government’s suspension throughout tho winter of permits for navigation of the ice-strewn Danube has handicapped German trade. Floes block the river from the Black Sea to the Tugoslav frontier. The Germans are worried over the interruption of traffic on the river, which is now the chief channel for Balkan exports to Germany, including 80 per cent,, of Rumanian oil and nearly all Rumanian cereals. A single-track railway across Hungary is taking livestock, beans, maize and secondary goods, since, tho Buch-arcst-Breslau line through Lwow is almost at a standstill following the Russian occupation of East Poland. Snowstorms and roaming packs of wolves hinder traffic in Western and Northern Rumania. The Germans may use icebreakers and dynamite in an attempt to free the Danube.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 65, Issue 4, 5 January 1940, Page 9
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