Germans in Galicia
The activities of German troops in Galicia, in the southern area of Soviet-occupied Poland, have been the subject of much speculation. The fact that many trainloads of troops have been transported to a point on the old Russian-Polish frontiers has led to a conjecture that they might be on their way to Odessa to keep a watching eye on the Caucasus—a guess that seems mainly based on the fact that the railway points that way. May they not be there to keep a watching eye on Russia? What is more easily intelligible is the fact that German troops are now controlling the region of the Galician oilfields, where Russia has presumably authorised German agents to superintend the production and transport of oil ; and they also control the railway to Rumania. It is by this route that they doubtless hope to transport the oil and other supplies which have been long held up. Germans have been stating that the new Oil Commissariat in Rumania is arranging for greatly increased supplies of oil even from companies which have Anglo-French capital in them. The wish may be father to the thought. Rumania has been receiving important materials from the Allies on the under- standing that a limited quantity only of her oil was to go to Germany.
