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X-Ae8-e December 532. — page two the Sumanian naval construction program into over-all Soviet plans. Rx 40 increase efficiency in that branch, the “ovrom is reorganizing Rumanian navy yards in such a manner that they no longer finish the ships on which they work s henceforth, they will only make parts, which theh will be furnished to the ~oviet Black Sea naval construction yards. In t hese, the constructions will be finished. On the basis of pres -nt plans, the “umanian yards will mostly construct parts of river boats and submarines. ,he Black Sea boats on the other hand will mostly be left entirely to the 5ovi t Navy yardse it must be admitted, that this is even economically sound, far from any po itical consifierations¢ since the Soviet Black Sea boats are of a far superior quality to the ones produced in Kumania. 3 “4 third Sovrom, whose exact -ompetence so far remains to be determgined, will direst the exploitation of at least parts of the Rumanian wood market. “he “oviet interest in the Sumanian wo d market is understandable, if one considers that under present arrangements, Rumania is furnishing daily 400 freight cars of finest Carpathian woods to the USSRe this wood can be transformed into plywooude -ince the needs for plywood are rapidly rising in the US°R, it is believed in sumania that the new Sovyopm might establish in the country several plywood factories, which would furnish the USSR directly with Mumanian plywood. Before the end of the winter other similar sovroms are bound to be organized, in orcer to cover other areas of Rumania's economy. It is hard to say at present what they will bee It is nevertheless Likely that one of them will cover the whole textile branche Already to this moment, kumania has ben erporting over 80% of i&MM@ its textiles to “ussia, depriving by the same token its own domestic market of essential goods. The same thing, by the way, is also true for numanian agriculturee Despite the desperate shortage of meat and dairy products in the country, Kumania exported last year 300.000 heads of cattle to the USSRe the result is obvious; food rationing has become more stringend than ever before and this sinter will be ons of the hardest for the populatione it is estimated by “uranian cconomists, that in cons