THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 4, 1941.
ARE FED BETTER
GERMANS PAYING GERMANS
HEAVILY IN OIL FOR EVERY GAIN
(By Kirke L. Simpson)
WHATEVER THE TRUTH of Berlin's undocu- mented claims of sweeping victories in Russia, there can be no doubt as to the heavy price the Nazis are paying, especially in war materials.
Of course, Russian statements that a million or more Germans have been killed, wounded or cap- tured in the first three weeks of fighting are even less trustworthy than almost identical Nazi claims. Both were issued by propagandists.
CHIVALRY LIVES ON
Normally the casualties of at- tacking forces are double or triple those of the delenders. The cir- cumstances of the Nazi-Soviet conflict, including the undenied entrapment of Red Armies in the Minsk-Bialystok sector, tended
German soldiers and people are consider- ably better fed than in the last war, says Q U.S. Agricultural Department report, quoted by Reuter.
While Italy is re- ported to be in a less favourable position than Germany, food- stuffs vital to the Italian diet are being exported to Germany in large quantities.
LEARNING
A prodigious TO MAKE
to reverse that rule. Red retreat on a 2,000 mile front has cost more than 250,000 per- sonnel losses, according to Mos-
Chivalry still lives amid | cow's admission. German casual-
the fires and wreckage and terror of the blitz. Four men awarded the George Medal had risked
ties may in fact be far below that.
ROCK
Tapping Oil Reserves CAKE?
Yet to press his campaign In
roads into reserve stocks of oil
Russia Hitler is sanctioning in- Sent to an Army cook- their lives to save women probably of food which could ery school for a six-weeks buried in the ruins of virtually immobilise his armies course of training, a bombed homes.
for months to come, even in the
event of relatively quick and young soldier complains For eleven hours, Francis Har-complete victory in the East. He that he and his fellow- low Tritt and James Wood, mein- can have sma'l hope now of re-
bers of a rescue party at Stoke stocking from Russian sources in students spent most of Newington, N., worked among time to let his land legions loose the time working in a collapsing walls and floors to against Britain this year. And next rescue a family of four.
year Britain may be master of quarry. the air with American help.
Gas was escaping from bro- ken pipes and they had to shield the trapped victims from fall- ing debris with their bodies, But finally all four victims were saved.
The mother was pinned from the waist downwards with ย collapsed floor only a few inches above her head.
"Our first job," he writes, "was new stones for the purpose of to go into a stone quarry and
This making paths and roads.
until the time for our have been depleted at this stage,course was nearly up. It left us they could calculate with roaten days in which to learn to be sonable accuracy a day when Hitler might have to write his Russian adventure off as a dia. aster dospite great military **victories."
If London, Moscow, or Wash Ington knew just how far the
German war reserves actually lasted
able to cook,
"It costs the Government £30 per man to train him to be an: Army cook. In this case public Tritt and Wood began to dig. They uncovered the heads of a
money was absolutely wasted." Unquestionably German armies The War Office's comment on son and daughter. Dust, bricks and plaster had to be scooped into slogging eastward into Russia are the complaint is that this was consuming their ofl "fat," natural | the case of a new school which buckets by hand.
Several times more falls reburi. and synthetic, faster to-day than was not ready for use without
some work at any time during the war. casualties.
manual ed the
involving In steadily
The vast distances they have labour, and worsening conditions three of the
that as no other family were released.
already extended their front east- labour was available some of the John Foster, lorry driver, of ward insures that, There can be students were put on to making Hackney A.R.P., saved seven no halt. Their oil-powered com- paths for two days. people.
munication lines are being further alextended through
with
every
The statement that only ten
After breaking
foot of days were left for training is door he reached five victims. advance in Russia. And steady described as "entirely false." He was giving ald when the British bombing of German oil debris collapsed and
Low also depots in France and he
the
was trapped.
Countries and of natural and sya- When others of the rescue tholic oll plants in Germany itself Bquad reached them they found is an added drain.
Foster protecting a woman from falling rubble by holding his
steel helmet over her face. Though
and dazed
bruised. Foster worked on and extricated three women who, but for him, would have been suffocated.
Slid Into Crater
Oil Field Bombed
air attacks Persistent Russian on the vital Rumanian oil field
Is centre, Ploesti, German and Rumanian war bul-
tack in the west is rail and road
HESS-MEN DESPAIRED
peo-
In his weekly address to admitted in the Czechoslovak letins. It is clear that another ple, M. Jan Masaryk, the prime objective of British air at Czechoslovak Foreign James Brennan. A.R.P. Opera-transportation centres in Germany Minister, said it would be tions Officer at Willesden. N. W., and occupied countries over which foolish to explain over the rescued a woman trapped from oil and gasoline stocks must move. the knees downwards.
Somewhere in the German High wireless what Hess has While she was being held up Command accurate data on the confessed. he slid into the crater on his cumulative effect of this drain on stomach and removed bricks by hand, though there was a strong 'concentration of coal gas where he was lying head downwards.
SECRET INQUEST ON PILOT SHOT IN CAR
and
Nazi oil stocks carefully compiled.
sources is
"It wHI be suffalent If I tell you most definitely that a large number of other Nazi gangsters, The result must provide Hitler
led by the fugitive Hess, has with a time schedule for con-
decided that Germany cannot quest of Russia. Hie armies
win this war and that only must keep up with that schedule
peaca negotiations can save or bog down in the vast country
them. This is symptomatic." Indefinitely for lack of fuot;
M. Masaryk added that it was. That would spell ultimate défeat for him just as certainly as would even more symptomatic for the utter repulse of his armies at the strange, working of the Nazi mind that Hess thought he would find Stalin Line or elsewhere in Russia. It would turn his Russian "vie Churchill's England in a mood tories into liabilities, Instead of ready, even for a second to The Press was barred from an assets if he failed to tap Russian consider negotiating with the German Knight of Dachau and inquest in a South of England oli sources, still far distant from
****** Oranienburg **** town on an RAF pilot who was his most advanced lines. said to have been shot through the Oil attrition is the most power- head while travelling in a carful weapon the Anglo-Russian war driven by a suuadron leader. associates can use against Hitler
WHITEWASHER
Lord Croft, Parliamentary A young soldier is alleged to at this stage and they are making have fired the shot and it is under-the most of their opportunity. If Under-Secretary, War Office, said stood that a milltary; inquiry will all the facts of Nazi oil reserves in the House of Lords: "In the the Duke be held.
were known, they well might dip-defence of Keren close Hitler's Germany teetering of Aosta made, a terrific effort to even now on the verge of final save the honour of his country so disaster.
tarnished by Mussolini.”
SOUVENIR HUNTERS
WAR AID FROM UNKNOWN
Three timog an unknown man has called on the British repre- fsentative to Eire in Dublin and
13 UNWANTED
OFFICERS :::
FINED
Nine souvenir-hunters who visited a shot-down German plane were fined from £1 to £2 at a north-east police court for finding
handed in money towards the Thirteen Army officers have cost of the war." His latest gift been cashiered or dismissed the 18 a 100-dollar bill. He had pre- Service, according to supple viously given £4Dment to the "London Gazette, and falling to hand it over,
or receiving enemy equipment
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