1940-01-29 — Page 9

More Nazi Secrets Revealed Startling Report By Escaped Doctor

"HEIL, HUNGER!"

TALE OF SEX

AND DRINK

HOW LONG CAN Nazi Germany hold out? How long before her civil population cracks? The answers are any- body's guess; but everybody's guess can be based on this hard fact: Germany entered the war the sick man of Europe.

Six years of Nazi rule have made Germany the most disease-ridden country in Europe; and the younger genera- tion, which is said to be fanatically pro-Hitler, are smother- ing the gnawing pains of disease and hunger in alcohol and

sex.

Six months ago, writes a correspon- dent, I talked in a London hotel with

a woman en route from Switzerland to America. She told me how Dr.

CENSOR

BREAKS THE ICE!"

London, To-day.

Martin Gumpert, famous head of the 66 Berlin City Dispensary for Deformity Diseases and a victim of Nazi Jew- baiting, had escaped, how he had sa- crificed his personal property to get out of Germany official records of German public health and vital sta- tistics.

Under Hitler the teetotaller, the consumption of alcohol was doubled. Under Hitler the purist, venereal in- fection in the Nazi Army has more than doubled,

The reasons are being set out in full In Dr. Gumpert's forthcoming book, "Heil, Hunger!”

DISEASE TOLL

In 1933, there were 79,830 scarlet fever cases; in 1937, 117,544. In 1933 there were 77,340 diphtheria cases; in 1937, 146,733. Dysentery, a disease of filth, has jumped 300 per cent. The mortality rate has risen by 80,000 per year, and strikes especially at the age- groups one to 15 and 20 to 45.

men

In 1936, only 75 per cent of called to the Colours were fit for ser- vice; in 1938, only 55 per cent.

"The ice has been broken by the censor," chuckled the B.B.C. announcer during yes- terday's Empire broadcasts.

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In order to make things difficult for German weathermen-and, hence, German airmen-the popular ments on "The Weather at Home" have been dropped from the Empire news bulletins for some time.

Yesterday, the censor allowed the BBC to broadcast details of the sort of weather England had been, having some two weeks ago!

This included the coldest wea ther in 46 years, the freezing of the Thames, Ice-skating, broken water pipes, and lucky house. holders sharing their baths with more unfortunate frlands. "It is cold to-day, but we These conditions are reflected intell you any more about it now," con- cannot The falling marriage rate-12.2 per cluded the announcer. "Perhaps we 1,000 in 1934; 8.9 per 1,000 in 1937;

shall be able to give you some more. The alarming number of suicides in the future if the censor thaws out 4.1 In every 10,000 persona, the Nazi

again!"—Reuter. figure being almost as high as the gross figure for the rest of Europe;

The Increase in the number of in- dustrial accidente-1,789,000 in 1937, and a risa of 435,000 In two years.

Tubercular patients, numbering 1,500,000, are forced to engage in "useful work," those who behave "anti-socially"-"perhaps they will ac- .tually cough," comments Dr. Gumpert

-being "ruthlessly eliminated."

BRITISH RELIEF

IN TURKEY

Istanbul, To-day. The British delegate to help in the distribution of clothing, medicines, food and other relief to the earth- quake victims reached Istanbul yes- terday, where he was given an official welcome.

He will proceed to the stricken area

Lord Haw-Haw recently has been reminding British listeners of the al- leged effects on German children of the 1917-18 Blockade. That Blockade | precipitated rickets, now called "En- glishman's Disease" by Nazi propagan-to-day.-Reuter. dists. The devilishly clever Nazi pro- paganda machine, we may be sure, will lle and misrepresent in an effort to turn to their own advantage Dr. Gum- pert's tragic revelation that the Ger- man populace is riddled with rickets

now.

PROPAGANDA VALUE

CANADIAN ELECTION

Ottawa, To-day.

nection with the general election which falls on March 26,

Any election speeches which are broadcast will have to be censored in accordance with the Defence Regula- tions of Canada.. Reuter.

Mr. Mackenzie King, the Prime In Munich, cnly 3.5 per cent. of Minister, is not to make the custom- school children are free from rickets.ary trans-continental tour in con- A majority of boys and girls in the Hitler Youth suffer from splayed, twisted or flat feet. The majority of young men in the Labour Service auf- fer similarly. Between 1937 and 1989, the number of university students who had to be excused from sports because of physical weakness doubled. "Heil, Hunger!" is dynamite. In the hands of a Ministry of Information that knows its job. It can blow up the Nazi creed in Germany-and in Great. Britain, where there are still guided persons, including member of the Government, who think

to be said for Nazi soc

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NAZIS "READY FOR 30-YEAR WAR"

"We are ready even for * thirty years' war," said a broad- cast from all Nazi stations last night.

"We walt patiently for the right moment for declaive ac- tion,"

It Was added. "The Fuehrer will choose it.”

In a radio speech after the opaning of the Adolf Hitler canal In Upper Silesia; Gauleiter, Wag- ner said: "This is only the ba- ginning of the Fuehrer's plans. We will have channels in the "Balkans down to the Black Séa-

If not this year, certainly in the future."

MILITARY EXPERT ON LIKELY NAZI TACTICS

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")

GENERAL

BRUSSELS, TO-DAY.

DUVAL, FAMOUS FRENCH MILITARY EXPERT, IN THE COURSE OF A LECTURE HERE EXPRESSED THE OPINION THAT A GERMAN ATTACK WILL

AIM TO SHATTER THE MAGINOT LINE. BETWEEN THE MOSELLE AND THE RHINE AND WILL NOT ATTEMPT TO INVADE BELGIUM,

HOLLAND, OR SWITZERLAND.

NATIONS IN ARMS: 17,500,000 SOLDIERS

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")

London, To-day. By the end of this year, Germany will have 7,500,000 men under arms; France, 6,500,000; and Britain, 3,500,000, according to the "Sunday Despatch."

Referring to the French Army, the same paper says that British military experts were amazed when they saw the innumerable guns behind the Maginot Line all mounted on run- ways and rails, and asserts that the French artillery control all the Ger- man highways within a radius of 50 miles of the Maginot Line.

The paper also describes the 70-ton tanks of the French Army-Havas.

U.S. NOT RUSHING INTO THE WAR

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA_MAIL")

New York, To-day. President Roosevelt's message to Great War veterans, stressed that the defence does not mean that the Unit- recent decision to strengthen ́national Scan-ed States will be invloved

European War.

Neither does he expect the Nazis to cause a diversion through dinavia or, the Balkans,

He believes that the German attack will be supported by tanks, weighing

offensive 80 or even 100 tons, a massive air and large-scale military action.-Havas.

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"To the contrary, stated the Pre- sident," the dangers of the United States participating in the war has been decreased by defence prepara- tions. Havas,

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