THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 15, 1940.
CHINA MAIL
INDSOR HOUSE
RUMANIA
Hitler's military occu- pation of Rumania may be part of a larger design against the Middle East. It may, on the other hand, be compelled by the dif- ficulties created following| the extensive dismember- ment of Rumania under his "referee" pressure two months ago. The practical fact is that Hitler knows that a situation was creat- ed which is not safe for anybody, the participat- ing parties or the dictat- ing, threatening and com- peting bystanders.
SALES TAX
WESTMINSTER
STABLES
PRE-WAR ECONOMICS UN HIRE
**STRIKE ME PINK, SOME BLOKES STILL
DON'T REALISE IT'S A MECHANISED WAR....
KINGSLEY WOOD RIDES FORTA.
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How Germany "Kills The Goose"
The fears of the Nazi dictator individually and collectively gravitate to one, Russia as the chal- lenger of Nazi domination in the Balkan area. Dic-. tator Stalin and Dictator. Hitler are suspicious and jealous of each other, di- plomatic allies to a degree but planning programmes that clash in almost all essentials, allies for expe- diency, but distrusting competitors in conquest as soon as expediency fails to years of sacrifice to arms-inating dictate otherwise. What and further threatened by the transfer of agricultural workers Hitler is starting in Ru- to the army, Germany began the
Her food supplies depleted by ! But France's agriculture, though { clsc as far as Russia), consume Here, indeed, is the core of the
make her self-supporting in food some 130,000,000 tons of cereals a great, was not great enough to either as food or as feeding-stuffs, whole problem. The resources of supplies, so that France, too, is a year. Of this, about one-tenth is Europe are enough to feed the liability and not an asset, to Ger-normally imported from cutside German people. They may be many's food economy.
Europe.
enough, too, for the Italians, who- will no doubt be allowed to have what the Germans do not need.
war in no condition to stand the
mania looks for all the world like a picket fence pressure of the British blockade. thrown across the path of
But she has added to this a self- Stalin's ambitions and ex-blockade pansion plans.
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that hits the German Where Germany Stands Europe, the main granary, the har
people and other European na- tions as well.
decline
Each extension of Germany's The Rumanian oili By over-running Norway, Den-military domination has led to a fields constitute no enor-mark, Holland and Belgium, Ger- corresponding
of food mous factor in world oil many acquired, big stocks of food supply, but their produc- for immediate use.
But in doing so the "killed the goore": the put an end to the countries to capacity of these send her the great supplies she had always received from them.
For all these countries de- pended on imported feeding. stuffe for their livestock and on Imported fertiliser
agriculture.
for their.
power.
How difficult is Germany's situation now? How far have the
By R.W.B. Clarke
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It is certainly not unreasonable to suggest that European produc- tion this year will be 25 per cent. below normal. In South-Eastern
vest is expected to be at least 25 will fall by hardly less. It was per cent down. That of Germany Starve The Conquered estimated that the French harvest would be reduced by some 25 per cent., even before German occupa- tion.
With
starvation of the people in the oc- But the price of this will be the
cupied territories. The 42,000,000 French men and women, the 17,000,000 Dutch and Belgians, and the 13,000,000. Scandinavians will be the sufferers, alongside the 25,000,000 Poles,"
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non-European Imports excluded, the current supply available for consumption will: thus be reduced by about one- third. This is. a reasonable minimum reduction; it may con-
Their food supplies are literal- ceivably be more, perhaps asly being ravaged by the Germans. The more they produce the more will be stolen for the German
much as one-half.
On the. other are
hand, there granaries. certainly war reserves of grain which in the aggre- If they succeed in buying sup- gate are substantial. But these plies from abroad, those supplies
tion is big from the point of view of Germany, un- der prevailing conditions of distress in connection with fueling of the war machine. All indications are that the oil supply forthcoming from Russia is disappointing. Also the British airmen evidently even feed
Without imports they cannot Nazis gone down the slippery slope are needed both to make good the too will be swept into the Gennan
themselves, let alone to starvation?
shortage of bread grains, and to maw. make good the shortage of animal have scored numerous Germany. And now that they are enemy-occupied territory, they
feeding-stuffs to maintain the sup- Will these food hits on Germany's syn- cannot be allowed to import in
difficulties in ply of meat and fats. Such re- thetic oil plants, making order to keep Germany's war go-act be supportable, or is Going serves, therefore, cannot suffice for though the experience of Poland
approaching a situation similar to more than a limited period. ing.
that of the summer of 1918, the Rumanian supply all the more vital, too impor- By over-running France, the even of Central Europe in the ap- food palling years which followed the Germans acquired certain tant for the neglect of any stocks and a great agricultural last war? detail of protection and country. control.
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It is simple enough to see the qualitative process working out, to say that the food situation will be worse in the winter of 1940-41
than it was in the winter of 1939-are
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Poor Food
They may be allowed enough to save them from starvation-al- -
throws doubt even on that.
But they will acouredly be al- towed no more than the mini-
· mum. That is certain and xs- eured; we have though experi...” once of Nazl policy in occupied territories to determine it
The current Tations in Germany
just adequate, but their So we see the "Guns before But-
The Danubian food sup-answer is that Stalin can ply is in much the same afford to wait as long as 10. But how much worse will it dietetic quality depends to a large ter policy reach-its apotheosis. general category as the he has reason to believe be? Will it be so bad that it will in extent upon the output of fruit and As a direct consequence of the de
fact force the Nazi Government to vegetables, the distribution of liberate policy of the German oil supply, subject to the Hitler may be easier to modify its programme of world which is threatened by transport Government, Germany has reach-
on than he domination, and hurriedly devote difficulties.
ed a situation in which the Ger same pressure as to urgent fight later
resources to the righting of food need and danger of loss of would be if challenged supply instead of consolidation of The diet, furthermore, is dull locustilte looting of the occupied man.people can be fèd only by n
conquest? :
and unvaried, and very unpalat-territories, and by an exhaustion outright now. control.
able, especially at a time when the of Germany's own stocks. This in This is another applica- Will it be so bad that it even German people are expecting a its. furn will not only threaten Since the Balkan field tion of the theory that endangers
dividend from vietery. However, something very near starvation for the German people will be able to the millions of men and woman in is vitally important in the the starting of to-mor- Nazi Government itself?
eat the stocks looted from the ofthe defeated countries, but it also Soviet scheme as well as row's war depends on the
cupied territories. Unless the Hitler's 'conquests have gone harvest is a complete failure, the those nations long-term food means the virtual destruction of; in the Nazi net-work one outcome of to-day's war no far that the situation must
German food supply during the be examined from a European next twelve months may not be
Dötential. might inquire why Stalin --a point that finds appli-point of view.
intolerably bad. stands by and allows Hit- cation on the various ler's aggression to go un- fronts in 1 Europe as well challenged. The simple as in Asia.
the existence of the
The nations of the European Continent (excluding Britain, of course, but including everything
It will be maintained, how "over, only at the expente of the
people of occupied territories.
The ravages of war followed by the ravages of looting cannot, he repaired in one year or even in five years,