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BREAD

FUNNY SIDE UP

By Abner Dean

or

BULLETS?

The question whether food may decide the European war has become increasingly important in recent weeks of intensified blockade and counter-blockade.

An economic conflict, clouded by military conditions. and by censorship is going on behind the spectacular aerial warfare raging over Europe and raising the ques- tion of whether shortage of food and other supplies can affect the 'outcome of the military conflict as it did in the World War.

By Clifford L. Day United Press Staff Correspondent

Bread will be as important as bullets for European belligerant nations if the war goes into an- other winter.

But a recent survey showed that both

situation was becoming "very dif- Acult" in the Industrial areas of Poland, Norway, and Belgium.

The German army advance, how-

of

ever, have not caused a vast destruc- tion erops, according to the British, if Poland is excepted. One neutral diplomat In London summed up the prospects for Norway fh these

Great Britain and Germany words:

profess to believe that while food Food position desperate

will be limited, strict control of suppites will offset any danger of general famine in Europe in the im- mediate future.

to

enemy

in Norway

"It is going to be a simple dict Just Ash,"

At harvest time in this war year, But he expressed doubt that there the belligerent powers are bending would be any serious famine. every effort choke off

At present an excellent potato and supplies and to overcome the direct beet crop is in prospect for Europe, or indirect effects of devastating and if this materialises as expected, modern warfare, economic strangula- it will compensate for other short- tion by blockade or counter-blockadega.

Britain, with a tightened system of and the subsequent threat of oven-

rationing, is depending on the navy tual food shortage or actual famine.

and air foren to keep open lines of

and oversens,

the Food may eventually be a de-supplies from cisive factor in the Wor, many government has assured Commons that new methods of combating the neutral observers belleve, providing

Nazi aerial blockade were proving there is no sudden and tremendous effective. One method is the use of military blow to bring o quick balloon barrages on ships being con- change in the whole trend of the Voyed through the English Channel, conflict. But both sides point out the decks of the British ships in that big reserves of food had been order to block German dive-bombers, created before the war and that But counter attack by Royal Air economic war is a slow process, so Force fighters is still the most re-

that the British Buy their liable defensive weapon.

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Geography Will

Fight for Britain

By David J. Murphy

One of Britain's strongest progress, and these obstacles defences against an invader also present new difficulties for

invaders from the air. is-Britain

England has few mountains-- Apart from the man-made but an abundance of hills. The The sharpest disagreement regard-Women have replaced men called to defences which now ring countryside from the coast in-

bears the indication U is received in blockade is not scheduled to produce

In addition, British has plowed up Hongkong on the date of publication by

a "telling" effect on Germany until thousands of acres of land normally the United Press Associations, who res

unused-including many big estates serve all tights and forbid republication, late in 1941.

to produce food for the winter. eithor wholly or in part without previous Berangement

That

TIMETABLES

conditions

G

the the colours to tend the fields. concern

Ing food prospects of

war-torn

such areas France, Belgium, Poland, and Nor-

varlous

way.

Typical of the confleting claims is Belgium,

where US. Ambassador John Cudahy assorted that 8,000,000 faining persons would be close to

Nazis.

new task

invader.

the coast, Nature has pro-land, is composed of hills and severe shortage Hitler forces a gigantic vided the people of Britain dales which could be easily de- fended against much larger with a ready-made fortress. forces. Only on the east coast. A great deal has been said

Between the would-be invader are there stretches of flat coun- Germuny has transporled many about Hitler's supposed "time-

thousands of Police to the Reich to and his objective there stands try, and to reach them an in- tables" of conquest. Last May

Be-vading army would have to work on farms and has undertaken first the barrier of the sca. the tremendous task of restoring fore Hitler's army puts a foot face a long sea crossing with during the battle of France, the

normal channels of supply.

on British soil, it has to cross, negligible sea-power to support German Propaganda Ministry

Hitler Is facing a gigantic task in at the narrowest point, 21 miles it. was pumping out with its usual this Autumn if they failed to re- governing and making use of more of a senway that is swept by the! Moreover, the British countryside

celve foreign supplies. That was than 60,000,000 persons in eight

park- attempted mesmeric insistence a disputed in both London and Berlin. European countries his armies en fiercest tides and is liable to the ts unique for its hedges and Buccession of rumours, reports,

comparatively few main roads," most. tered in the last 17 months, but in most sudden of weather changes. lands. With the exception of the The British reply was that the addition the Axis powers have sought and semi-official statements that blockade of German-held territory to pacify the Balkans, swing them the British Isles are, in fact, winding, and are flanked by ditches The seaward approaches to of the highways are narrow and Paris would fall about June 15, would continue and that Adolf Hitler into the Nazl-Fascist orbit and

the and stout hedges, tohich also criss-

Cross the countryside. an armistice be signed on June personally had declared that Ger- resume production which was inter among the trickiest in

rupted by long periods of mobilisa-world and now that they are An English hedge has remarkable 27, and that the Army of the many had suffetent stores for a long lon, British sources have reported farther protected by secret and powers of resistance. Unless the Reich would be in London by war and therefore any starvation in poor crop prospects in some Balkan extensive minefields they con-invader were able to land fanks-n Belgium would be the fault of the areas, but the German press is fore-stitute a great hazard to any highly doubtful proposition--these August 15.

casting a good harvest.

innumerablo hedges would present a tremendous obstacle to invaders on, date set for the

At Berlin a responsible German In many countries invaded and And the sea is the Briton's foot. triumphal entry of the Nazis source declared that Belgium crop occupied by the Germans it has been into the British capital has long were only slightly under normal charged that the Nazis have drained natural element. He fights on the new territory of food. But the it with all the dash and daring come and gone, and the fallure despite the war and that the country Nazis say they sent soup kitchens which only centuries of sea of the menacing forecast has still has considerable reserves, which behind their invading armies and tradition can make possible.

have fed and cared for millions of To cross that strip of water which been prominently pointed out by were accumulated before the German that German welfare organisations

This multiplicity of hedges natural- separates Britain from the Continent. a waiting world.

the Germans must first tackle that cuts down the size of English the mid-August date did bring Germany claims she is

In the Netherlands, Belglum, Den-element which is foreign to most of fields, and the number of open spaces

upon which troop-carrying mark and Norway one of the first them. a German mass air raid of un- ready for blockade

effects of German occupation was And

even if the crossing planes could land with safety is considerably kmaller than most precedented intensity, adding to Germany at present is prepared to the rationing of food, clothes, shoes, were accomplished, the invaders peop

Indeed, one Imagine.

of the people the casualties and damage for make up any shortages in the Bel-and other articles.

would find that their difficulties great problems that has had to be gion food supply by importations In the Netherlands and Belglurn, were only just beginning. By faced in the R.A.F. expansion pro- which civilization

·OL· ultimately from the Reich and from other Get according to Berlin, farmers were far the greater part of the Bri-gramme has been the lack

abic sites for conversion into airă must hold the Nazi regime man occupied territories, this Berlin returned to their farms and de

source salt.

mobilised soldiers returned to their tish coastline is made up of The open spaces

that remain are morally responsible. But this is

ily or dotted with trees and "Neither Belgium nor German will jobs la connection with the German rugged cliffs and rocks, many of either hily or

Many vory different from the land-atarve this winter, nor would Ger- campaign to restore normal condi- them bold and precipitous. Ap-hedges.

peace-time air proved Istal because. and-sea invasion by hundreds of many starve if the British could tions immediately and thus profit by proximately two-thirds of the crash has

coast presents to an invader planes forced down by engine fallura thousands of troops without maintain their blogcade for many the production of these nations.

to grief through crashing into years," this source continued.

In occupied France, the process sheer walls of chalk, clay or

an unyielding English hedge. which there could scarcely bą

"On the other hand, the situation was far slower, and more painful..

Only recently, any occupation of Britain. And is likely to grow critical in France Many northern French towns and rock, walls that are largely un- the attacking air forces have and in England, which-unlike Ger- villages were devastated during the scaleable. paid heavily in losses.

siege."

It is true that

invasion.

destitute refugees.

Gaps in

many are not prepared for such a wac and farms were untended be Few

cause the menfolk were killed or in It is evident that the German Two neutral observers who arrived German prison comps.

the Wall Cattle were killed or driven off by

came

Few Landing Grounds

the

дего-

・ruit- airfield.

and woodland,

Sur-

in

County veyor of Essex mode an appeal for "thousands and thousands" of wattle hurdles, to be used against any pos sible invader. sullable

abounded Prushwoodcclared that and every hedge High Command has more than in Berlin recently after a short trip

10 German-occupied areas of Bel- refugees or seized by armies. Areas

added, "Anyone who has been in a Much of the west coast of battle zone knows that a

good hurdle gium and France said that surface along the English Channel coast are

England can be ruled out as the is worth its weight in gold there.". indications at present seemed to like dead country,

Denmark recently had to slaughter possible scene of sen-borne in- It would be no exaggeration to any.

that an invader would find hundreds support the Nazi claims. These ob- servers said that, while it was im- many cattle because of inability to vasion. If this form of attack of thousands of these hurdles stretch- possible to make it a thorough in-Import feed for them. vestigation, the restaurants and the markets were operating and there) seemed to be plenty of food.

Hitler Thinks Poison Gas Humane*

its own speed of movement to calculate in setting any supposed schedule of triumphs, and that any would-be hypnotic assertions

la to come, it will probably be ing out across the whole of England. put out from Berlin as part of

launched against one of the few in the shape of hedges that have the propaganda of war to

flat stretches of coastline on been rooted in for centuries:

Another fact of great importance is the enat, in Lincolnshire, or on the ploughing up campaign that is paralyze resistance need not and Nevertheless, the general view of

the south along parts of the now in full swing, logike dhe tak should not be fatalistically neutrals in Europe is that both Ger

More coast of Kent, Sussex and

than many and Britain face a tremendous

**2,000,000

acres of accepted. There is in the problem in organising food supplies Says Neutral Reporter Hampshire,

grassland have been put to the British resistance a morale, as long as the war continues. Both

have taken far-reaching measures Hitler, seeking justification for at- Or else the attacker must plough in the drive for greater food unity and determination, which toward that objective and toward taciting open towns, and for using concentrate on amall gaps in the production, thus reducing still fur

ther the spaces on which it would Nazi. arms have not heretofore choking off the enemy's supplies. polson gas, is preparing an appeal to higher coastline, gaps which are be possible to land air-borne troops. study the world for realisation that these well-guarded for frak But England is not facing an encountered; and to a people British experts have made defending their homeland from of European conditions and they actions are prompted by "humans The stops that have been ordinary Invader. The Germans to sacrifice probably be willing to contend that most, if not all, nations motiver."

taken to prepare the danger a million men in order to conquer wanton attack there are, more will be enting into their reserves the The Berlin reporter of an Athens points of the coast against in her last and most formidable op

They reported belief newspaper reported that Nazi envoys vasion are secret--but anyone ponent That Is why every pre- over, factors of ald which a coming winter.

usat dimculties of distribution would all over the world will shortly notify who has visited these, defence caution is being taken, and why the pagan materialism cannot cause severe shortages in areas such the Governments to which they are

as occupied France and that the food accredited, that this war is too areas can see for himself evileks and parklands which were terrible to go ondence of the extensiveness and so pleasant to the 6 are now

every Date Imagine, op

ery kind of obstacle, it The Apostle James warned

the prepara possible to men against saying, To-day or slaughter. The people who up: Britain alone,it will be intensiveness

es, derelict bars, heaps of alleged, is responsible for the war tions.

Drain pipes,

other" Ulatacles” now to-morrow we will go into such hold the ideals of peaceful, free, continuing, so in the interests of The largest army ever con-bricks,

Kitter the green felds of England so humanity Germany must use every centrated in Britain is ready to a city even merely to buy and orderly, constructive living

means to bring Britain to her deal with any Germans who ven come will

that the 10%U9/9% 13% and when he host of naw sell for gain, counselling that on among nations have strong,

turo on an invasion by sea. problems facing him. But the great- the Lord's willingness depended abiding inner conviction to “Facing this, project, the German If a German force dild succeed est, problem of all all human plans. Providence, support their affirmation that Government feels justbed in abro in gaining a footing, there are harmado, England

förtress, a GEOR certainly bestowano bleseing timetables of destruction do not galing her former pledges to the

do not world that open cities will be spared many other natural as well as England ved the theory of upon the will to rayage and hold true now or ever..

and that poison gas will not be used, man-made obstacles to bar their Valve weapons.

fathom.

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