SIBERIA'S GREAT WEALTH.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 September 1918, Page 7

SIBERIA'S GREAT WEALTH.

The potential wealth of Siberia is almost unlimited, and the Allies should give the question of the current of its supplies their urgent attention, declared Herbert Woolmer, one of the chief authorities on the economic wealth of the Siberian regions, in an interview with Reuter's, Limited, recently. ; Siberia, he declared, could export enormous quantities of cereals, live stock, fish, dairy products, precious and common metals, coal, whale oil, timber, wool, skins, etc. The population was growing fast, tne immigration in the last decade being greater to that into Canada in the same period. If Germany obtained control of the Trans-Siberian- line, he pointed! out, it would not be very difficult for her to get food supplied and raw materials from thist territory—everything die ueedsyiiuiact,' even; to cotton from Tashkent. As" alt this natural wealth must flow

the. railway, he continued, the AHies skat M.do .their utmost to' attract it morfhward t oward Archangel and eastward towards Vladivostok, hy organising' 'and assisting the Russians to operate their .railway,, thus preventing the><3€rmaris" from making' use' of tiiese rich' sources'.of?revenues: .and' supplied. Tfe Allies;- 1 lief'lnsisted, should also effort' icy .start again; .the Wprfe of plants of and; dCTjMd' in'. the : country itself. ,Thp <Mef. 6bjecf>V .6>'lie'ep 1 ill View,- he isaid; was 4 t'p' s'aiisfy 'tl'lo' people's most Trrgeiit;' needs 1 aiid. crejiie' afeeslr among: lfilfem, t a^feeling ( *<>f independence' and the (Sense? tijir&thej? then)Velveß ; ,were' reorgantMF friend'" jl^hel^an^asl&toeM^tfeS'oldljillief;-