Salt Lake Telegram | 1941-09-17 | Page 4 | Today's War Moves

f I Ukraine k TODAY'S WAR Drive i MOVES MOVES- Imperils S peril j Russia in In Long War n Br LOUIS F. F Of the United Pre rn War Mar D Desk k The C German drive e into the thes s 4 Ukraine already has fun struck a se severe ze- ze ere vere ere blow to Russia's war tear production pro pro- r resources and If It It U co con con- L finues to sweep eastward to toward to 7 ward the Don river may bo be a i 4 Mf In stringing ham the Rus- Rus toan army array in a protracted war Loss of the Ukraine would be Jf great handicap to the Russian War effort eUort but not nt necessarily a ajIaL i vital tat stroke Leningrad Mo- Mo Kiev and other cities of western item tern Russia are great tro ton centers and if they bold out together t J with wiLts the other centers canters r 3 that re region on should hould be ab able to carry the burden Their outpUt outpUt output out- out put would be supplemented by bythe the tM n newly developed industries In tn and arid east of the Urals Ural Much stress has been en laid Wd on oni i- i wh wheat t but the crop trop ti f tAct only Uy Jy ont one at oX the taT War Russian output Ukraine Ji A more ore important industrially e- e three fifths of ot Ru Rus- Rus r ro Ia roi i iron ore and pl pig Iron and half haU the coal Large Larg Industrial 1 plant pienta a are catt scattered red over the entire en en- tire me square quare of the thet t Ukraine it After Alter capturing the Krivol Rog and sweeping beyond Ond It the Ger- Ger ans had bad deprived of ome Important industries al- al tho h what fell into their hands ia wt of no immediate u use ue e to them By blowing up the bI big d dam dara m. m e test t of Rog the destroyed the power Which supplies the chain of metal in that part of the r middle Ukraine They incident- incident ally flooded the tower lower wh when n the released waters swept I down the river which ma may partly explain the IOn long G German bait at Its It banks The main industrial center of the Ukraine haw ever still U lies Ues ahead heed of the Germans It is the or Don but basin at the eastern end of the republic about miles mUe from ol Rog flog It U Ls a ab in coil st steel l and other raw mat materials which supply supply supply sup sup- ply not only Its It own factories but are an important source for Moscow and Leningrad Moscow l Is ls Russia's largest large in industrial in in- city It is 15 the center for high grade rade st steels ls automotive e equipment airplanes nes t tan tanks a n k s a machine tools and a wide variety ol ot other essential products product The second industrial center is Leningrad like Moscow is It a vital rail raU center ce for tor northwestern north north- western tern Russia It is the head of the canal system extending to the Volga and central l Russia The main Industries of the so soviet soviet soviet so- so viet union thus far Car are in the west and in the immediate p path th of the advancing Germans The II secondary line Une of industry which has bas been n intensively developed in recent y years rs lies along and be beyond beyond beyond be- be yond the Ur Urals ls Exact figures are not available but according to material in the reference files of the American Russian Institute Institute tute In tn New York the eastern states tates produce little more than seventh one of Russia's entire production They do however furnish about one-fourth one of the fuel and arid metal and their resources resources re re- re- re sources have only been scratched