Show oil cut 75 per cent in bombing raids ALLIED headquarters NAPLES the productive capacity of Ru manias oil refineries has been slashed to less than 25 per cent of normal as a result of the last five allied attacks on german fuel sources allied officials estimate A total of tons of bombs have been rained down on the rich oil region in those five raids which whick took place between may 5 and 31 the refining plants have been so badly smashed reconnaissance photographs to reveal that only one remains capable of any considerable production before the current series of raids had been attacked in june 1942 and august 1943 it is estimated here that the oilfields oil fields in april of this year were capable of producing oil at the rate of about tons annually now it is doubtful if they produce at the rate of tons aerial photos show great oil tanks tank w with ith their tops ripped open like tin cans while important distillation and cracking plants have been heavily damaged |