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THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 1, 1940
News Snack Bar
HITLER PURGES OFFICIALS WHO
MUDDLED FOOD & RAIL
Amsterdam, Feb. 14.
BETWEEN TWENTY and thirty Nazi official have been dismissed from their posts an taken into custody, it is learned from a reliable source.
They are being made responsible for the chaotic con- ditions existing in Germany following the great freeze, which shows new signs of becoming intensified.
These officials administered the German transport and food plans. It is said against them that they gravely neg- lected their duties, with the result that parts of Germany are now facing the most serious famine since 1918.
2D TIP FOR ARMY COOK
Lt.-Gen. Sir Guy Williams, G.O.C. Eastern Command, speak- ing on Army welfare In London yesterday, sald that a newly- joined Army class recruit in one of his training camps was -80.- appreciative of Army food that, after his first meal, he left 2d under the plate.
Gracie Raised £14,000
Gracie Fields's radio appeal for voluntary hospitals has brought in £14,000-and it is expected that the donations will soon reach £20,000:
Shops Painted
Many more officials are expected to be sacked as a result of the situation. The Amsterdam. Handelsblad corres- pondent in Berlin to-night stated: "German people are saying that they would not like to stand in the shoes of the men responsible for the famine."
have
He instances blunders that been made. In the Rhineland not a potato-with bread the staple food of wartime Germany-is to be had. The supplies have to come from Po- merania, 600 miles away. They have not arrived.
In parts of rural Germany pigs have had to be slaughtered in thou-.. sands because there are no foodstuffs for them. Potato. storage in many cases has been so careless that the frost has destroyed them.
Parislon"
Paris
"Toʻmake it look like a surprise, what about waiting till April 1?!
DANGER PAY FOR SEAMEN
anal-
or
"Hard-lying" money lowance to seamen on exception- ally difficult, uncomfortable dangerous service—is to be paid. at full rates to the personnel_of mine-sweeping and anti-sub- marine trawlers.
This was announced by Mr.
Parlia- Geoffrey, Shakespeare, mentary Secretary to the Ad- miralty.
* The allowances will be credited as from the outbreak of war,
Plans for getting coal to Berlin and Labour Under The other big cities have been hopelessly inadequate. In the German capital coal supplies are more than 50 per Nazi Heel
cent. less than at a normal winter
i-
Home On Leave-
Summoned For Rates
A sallor home on forty-eight hours leave had to spend two hours of it sit- ting in a police court to answer a sum- mons for arrears of rates.
When Stoker A. G. Paxton's name was called at Brentford the chairman asked: "What is the gallor doing here?"
Stoker Paxton: I have only forty- ́eight hours' leave, sir. I never thought I should have to spend the morning here.
Paxton's case took less than а -minute. He was told that under the Emergency Powers Act he could apply for relief, and was advised to write to the council.
Canada's War Effort
She cham-
“Viewed from this side of the Bor- time. But there is no shortage of A confidential report from inside der," says the Washington Star, "our coal in Germany. It
cannot be Germany declares
· has rendered that compulsory Northern neighbour brought to the capital from the mines, labour in the West Wall has a puni yeoman account of itself since it de-
There is reason to believe A number of shops including large Hitler personally intervened to have sent there are
that tive character. Refractory workers termined to play its full part in the referred to as the Empire's struggle for existence and stores in the main shopping centre of arrested the officials who have bungl- "Ley troop." "The rumour is rife against Nazi aggression. Already, Leicester-had the word "Jew" painted the plans.
that more workmen "fall" on the Canada is spending one million dol❤ ed on their windows during the black-
West Wall than soldiers at the front. lars a day in that effort. out.
There are penal companies there, and pioned and adopted the great Im- S. S. firing squads.”
perial air training scheme. She sent without delay a fully equipped divi- sional field” force to the Western- front. She has convoyed shiploads of men and munitions into the war zone. She is busily creating air- fields, manufacturing war materials, and training a new army,'
Clock Parachute
A Soviet military factory, it is claimed, is producing an amazing new invention a "clock parachute" which opens automatically at a fixed height and time regardless of the position of jumper in the air.
Culture Under
The Nazis
DR. LEY continues to express "Crime" In The
which
Germany's "just aspirations," her enemies are trying to thwart, in his usual crude way:
Protectorate
"A lower race," he said, "needs less room, less clothing, less food and
In Leitmeritz a shoemaker and a The invention, is a light, portable less culture than a higher race. The mason have each been sentenced to apparatus and can be attached to an German, cannot live under the same nine months' imprisonment for listen- ordinary parachute. It is of parti- conditions as the Pole of the Jew." cular value in the instruction of be- The war, must give Germany the ing to a news bulletin from London Social Justice
on the 8th September 1939, They ginners. Three hundred test jumps foundations on which to build the had been in custody since the 9th
In The War have been made with it without a life that its race and blood demand. September (Neue Tag, 29th January).
"More bread, more clothes, more liv They pleaded that while listening to The subsidy of £50 millions a year The invertors, three brothers named ing room, more culture and more the Deutschlandsender programme Doronin, have been awarded Gov- beauty! These our race must have, they fell asleep, and ernment honours.
hitch.
when they to keep Food prices down
(writes
or it dies." (Angriff, 31st January), awoke a foreign station had come Britannicus), has been the subject of
uppose all that you man think about is war.
through in its place.
Italy And The War
much economic argument, but its gen- eral social and political significance has been given less attention that it deserves.
In this light, the subsidy must be Times of Malta emphasises the seen as the latest war-lime addition comman interest of Italy and the to the British process of taking in- Allies in keeping out of the Medi- come from the rich and well-to-do terranean the illegal methods of and giving it to the poor and needy. German sea warfare, employed so Over-zealous enthusiasts have con- ruthlessly in the Baltic and North vinced themselves that the subsidies Sea
given by the British Exchequer in "At no time, not even during the order to keep down the prices of early Nyon
von negotiations was Italy staple foods are a cure for inflation. shaken in her conviction that as a No such claim has been made for them. great Mediterranean Power she by the Chancellor of the Exchequer should co-operate on terms of equall- or other members of the Cabinet, ty with Britain and France.
Hitler Gives Franco
A Military Car
They
are
· no more a cure for infla¬ tion than bringing down a man's temperature with an ice pack would be a cure for a feverish disease..
It is sometimes necessary to trent symptoms. But they are not to be confused with
causes.
The cause of
:
Hitler has given a military motor- Inflation is always the same thing- in- car to General Franco, the Spanish the existence of a larger flow
comes being spent than dictator.
The car has eight speeds and six taneous flow of godds and -- Independent wheels and can go up available for them to buy. The pres- gradients of 1 in.2.allgasda
* sure of (money against goods then Hitler presented Mussolini will a inevitably forces up prices, this being similar type of car
the main kymptom, of. infation.
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