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THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 16, 1939

G. H.Q. FOR PLAN TO SMASH BRITAIN

London, Nov. 29.

that there will be no paper, clothes, ns in the last war," some of them will soon be wearing darmènts made from notato haulm-stems and stalks.

A strategic G.H.Q. for putting into effect Germany's boasted resolve to "smash the British Empire" has been established in Berlin. Cash and pro-

A special factory has been establish- paganda are the chosen weapons:ed in Thuringia for drying the dead Any shortage of the former is com- tops of potatoes and converting them pensated by the abundance of the into cellulose. This, together with latter.

cellulose made from straw, will be used to augment Germany's dwindling supply of textile thread.

Hitler has assembled a committee of "experts" whose job it is to think out likely schemes for disrupting the Empire. The German Foreign Office and the external department of the Gestapo have pooled their resources in furtherance of the plan.

CHILDREN'S SHOE EXCHANGE

The Nazi party has opened in var ious towns children's "shoc exchan Here mothers bring their ci An opening broadside in this new outgrown footwear to exchange for campaign was fired over the short- larger sizes. It is a condition of ex- wave radio at the "ladies and gentle-change that the shoes must not be men of the Far East." It took the form of an harangue by a "guest from In- dia who has been living for some time in Germany." Listeners had to wait patiently while he repaid this hospi- tality by extolling the Fuchrer.

"Hear Hitler and learn from him," urged this Nazi Indian. Then, having lavished extravagant praise on his hosts, he launched into the expected denunciation of Britain's "explolta- tion" of India,

worn out.

New shoes are not rationed, but they can be bought only by permit. To obtain a permit the applicant has to prove, that he has only one pair of shoes fit to wear. This rigid regula- tion overlooks the needs of children who outgrow their shoes. The new "shoe exchanges" are an attempt to solve the problem.

BEST OF THE DAY Dr. Goebbels's Propaganda Ministry Such propaganda is cheap. The apparently keeps a card-index of experts of the "smash-the-Empire" | "British lies." The Berlin radio an- G.H.Q. will and it less easy to carry nouncer must have consulted it yes- out the second part of the task which terday when he declared: Hitler has laid upon them. They are to launch movements of disaffection. When started, these are to be financed from Berlin-if the war nearer home leaves any money to spare.

"Chamberlain has not succeeded in convicting Germany of a single lie, whereas we have produced documen- tary proof of 200 British lles."

There were, he added, many hun- At present the Nazis are bending dreds of other lies which it was not their efforts on India, Palestine and worth while to refute. Among them, Elre. They are also reported to be presumably, was Mr. Chamberlain's working hopefully on South Africa statement that he tried to prevent war. and Malta.

This the announcer dismissed, without documentary evidence, as “sheer blas-

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