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THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 28, 1941. ›

CHINA MAIL

WINDSOR HOUSE

HITLER CAN BE BEATEN

Three months ago, when gloom was a foot thick after the fall of| Crete, after the con- quest of Yugoslavia and Greece, after the reverses in North Africa-it was hard to get a hearing for the opinion that the great fundamentals of moral

and material power still lay on Britain's side, and that Hitler would never win this war. To-day, with Germany's best troops deeply embroiled in Russia, a good many of the gloomy prophets of two months ago have turned optimist. But the new confidence which they radiate seems to be based on their belief that Hitler is paying, and will continue to pay, a tre- mendous price for his Russian gains. If Russian resistance should collapse to-morrow a good many optimists would return to gloom again.

MEY

ASHES IN THE MOUTH

How Nazis Plunder

A fresh reminder of

EVER since Goering invented his The object of these meals is to trade with Germany grew larger some of the fundamental famous slogan “Guns or But- win over malcontents in the oc-and larger, the process continu- national finances factors on Britain's side ter," the Nazis have consistently cupled territories in favour of the ing until their

used food as a political instru- | occupying forces. As soon as the were reduced to chaos. This was! wholly regardless of the ment. At a time when growing | occupying authorities introduce the cue for Quislings. The Nazis || result of

which they the

do did not buy up transport difficulties make it im- food rationing,

the next year's German possible to provide the population soon after their arrival, a labour harvest-at most only an insigni- campaign in Russia with even their meagre rutions, recruiting campaign on behalf of ficant part of it. The result, was comes from the Brook-tood is often deliberately with- Germany is launched among the disaster.

held from them-for political working, classes. The bait offered

is the higher ration of food ob- Food As Propaganda In districts, for instance, with tainable in Germany. Workers are

France was and still is being

ten

supplementary, unrationed

ing forces.

war economy..

By.... For Mercal

clined, reduced and. if even this fails to produce enough "volun- teers," unemployment pay is cut no alternative off, leaving men but to sign on for work in Ger-

many.

Food, And "Haute Politique"

in exchange for concessions. France, one of the richest wheat- growing countries in Europe, is starving for lack of labourers to till the sofl and because her seed": is being carried off by the Ger- mans. Seed can be obtained from Morocco, but there can be no ade- quate cultivation until the prison- ers are returned. French prison- ers of war are compelled to work:| in German fields.

Food is everywhere used by the

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Asufficient quantity

of MILK daily is necessary for the maintenance health & energy

DAIRY

FARM

MILK:

of

milk in its most beneficial form

It's Fresh from the Farm: It's still Fresh when you get it;

Pasteurised.

Certified T. B. Free. Every bottle individual. ly sealed.

ings Institution, whose reasons. careful reports, on

any industries or mineral resources thereby urged to avoid gradual question, always repay which are essential to the war starvation at home by "volun- | black-mailed by a threat to retain close study. The present effort the people receive issues of tarlly" escaping to forced labour French prisoners of war or on

food-in Germany, If the bait is de to release them in small driblets report, a pamphlet pub-stuffs, whenever discontent among lished under the title of the works finds expression in a diminished output. On the other "A Short War Through hand, the least sign of dissatis- Americana Industrial faction in areas not important to

I war economy is visited by a cur- į Supremacy," is the work tailment of supplies. of

This treatment

in a applies a French economist

general way to whole districts, and industrialist, Louis, but distinctions are drawn he- Marlio,

of for

different categories years tween

workers. The military, of course, chairman of the great receive the best rations, though International Aluminum here, too, a difference is made ba-

middle of March photographs.ap- Cartel. It is M. Marlio's tween fighting troops and occupy-

Germans as propaganda. In the peared in all the Belgian papers central thesis that Ger- The best-treated class of civi-

showing, potatoes being unloaded lians are workers in the heavy

in Antwerp. The German caption many will lose the war be- industries and miners. The result

to these photographs was as fol- cause she is already of this policy has been to create,

lows: Germany, sends, food, to within a community which is,

In the diplomatic field the Ger- Belgium," Oddly enough, Belgian operating at the peak of generally speaking, ill or under-mans appear in agricultural coun- potatoes were on sale at the same her industrial

of feeders," capacity fed, an "aristocracy

tries as purchasers, before they time at Aachen and Herbesthal been coined in proceed to overrun (the phrase has and because she lacks Germany since the war began) with their armies. The technique a fact which is not so oud when the country (on the German-Belgian frontier); both the natural re- consisting of the pillars of Nazi of these purchases in both simple it is remembered that, Belgium, sources and the techni- domination-the SA and SS and and effective. It worked success- short as she was of many food

those upon whom the Nazis de- fully in Hungary, Rumania, Bul-stuffs, always produced sur- cal and mechanical pend for the maintenance of their garia, and, almost, in Yugoslavia, plus of potatoes. The Belgians are means to match the

In all these countries low world not deceived by this form of pro❤ prices were even before the war paganda, enormously superior pro-

making it very difficult for formas:] duction of

and guns tanks and 'planes and ships that will come from country free meals are issued for ways to buy cereals, oil-seeds etc., Naturally, the inhabitants of the United States. This the first few days from army kit- and, of course, tobacco, on the occupied territories are pro- chens. This charitable measure south-east Europe. If then Berlin tecting themselves against the use assertion he supports is loudly advertised and people are planned the milltary conquest of of food as a weapon of war. For with data that should be told that the requisite food is sent any of thesu countries, economic these various countries, are, pro-

from Germany. In fact, however, experts were sent on, ahead.

ducers as well as consumers.- In persuasive to the faint it consists invariably, of supplies These gentlemen offered to buy Denmark pigs and cattle have hearted:

"requisitioned"

reserves up the victims's whole surplus been slaughtered in secret on a stored up by the occupied focall crops. For these surpluses the large scale; the meat was sold on He warns, however, that des. As a rule, too, the local Nazis often paid prices above the the black markets of the towns. America ought not make authorities subsequently receive world level, not merely in order In the district of Iglau fat bill for this "free feeding" of that: agricultural goods, which (Bohemia) the Nazis were faced the mistake of failing to their unemployed,

otherwise might lack a market, with a strike by Czech cows: over. decide whether she is

could be gold en bloc, Before the a period during which German Economic Minister of the coun- cows yielded 17,000 litres of milk, preparing for a short war ately for one war or the try concerned had time to give his Czech cows in the same area pro- or a long war. For they other. Which is it to be? opinion about these German of duced only 10,000 litres.

fers, German wireless stations When Baron von Neurath went cannot do both effectively. In this respect the situa were already broadcasting Ger-on leave last December, he took at the same time: for tion would be more reas-many's generosity toward the poor with him to Germany no fewer example she cannot use suring if there was in Rumanian or Bulgarian farmer than twenty-seven cases of food As a result, the Balkan Econo- This did not prevent him on his steel to build factories to Washington a board of mic Ministers were besought by return from, publishing an article produce more steel a year

higher strategy with no their agricultural interests to ac- in a new perlodical "Bohemia and

cept these German offers. The deal Moravia," declaring that the ProHONG now, and still have duties save to consider, once. made, the Gormaris left the tectorate was dependent for food, upon the Reich. This is true in much steel for ships on the basis of the best bill unsettled.

The Balkan government was so far as there is available in the and guns in the next evidence available, the obliged to pay its farmers, with Protectorate only what the Nazis twelve months. She ought answers to large ques out itself receiving the money do not remove. But the Czechs from Gormany. The clearing ac are on their guard. For food, has to be planning deliber- tions of this kind.

counts of the Balkang countries. In become an instrument, of war.ee

Bait For The Unemployed

to

earn

a living. Germany, who is 100 per cent. self-supporting.

On every occupation of a new only in regard to potatoes, had al-

from

Defensive Measures By The Czechs

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DAIRY FARM MILK

WHAT IT IS

THE FINEST

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