-4-  #4294, August 1, 10 p.m., from London applied to Great Britain alone would mean one and
one fourth millions and for the British Empire twelve to thirteen millions.
     "Soviet manpower is not inexhaustible",  he said, "and in the past few months we have
begun to see its limits very clearly".
Since the beginning of the war, he continued, Russia has lost nearly 800,000 square miles of
territory, equal to the area of France, Britain and Germany together.  He added that the lost
territory encompasses a total population of at least fifty million.  He said that Russia can now
draw on only 140 million inhabitants, compared with 300 million under German control.  Having
lost the entire green fields of the Ukrain, the Kubon District-- The Granary-- is under immediate
threat of invasion.  "This means that in 1943 we may have very considerable food difficulties.
     He said that the Soviet authorities had been able to transfer factories from regions in
danger of occupation and move them to the east of Volga, but that they naturally could not
evacute coal, iron ore and other mineral deposits.