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TIMETABLES

the mid-August date did bring

October

1940.

FUNNY SIDE UP

or

By Abner Dean-

BREAD

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

Brend will be ns important aa bullets for European belligerant nations if the war goes into an- ather winter.

But a recent survey showed that both Great Britain and Germany

situation was becoming "very dif fcult" in the industrini areas of Poland, Norway, and Belgium.

the

The German army advance, how- ever, have not caused a vast destruc

of crops, according to tion British, it Poland is excepted. One neutral diplomat in London sunmed up the prospects for Norway in these words:

in Norway

profess to believe that while food Food position desperate with be limited, strict control of supplies will - offset any danger of general famine in Europe in the im- mediate future.

OT

off enemy

"It is going to be a simple dio!...... just fish,'

But he expressed doubt that there would be any serious famine.

At barvest time in this war year, the belligerent powers are bending every effort to choke

At present an excellent potato and supplies and to overcome the direct beet crop is in prospect for Europe, indirect "effects of devastating and this materialises as expected, modern warfare, economic strangulat will compensato for other short- tion by blockade or counter-blockade PCB. and the subsequent threat of even- tunt food shortage or actual famine.

Food may eventually be

Britain, with a tightened system of rationing, is depending on the navy and air force to keep open lines of and the de-supplies from overseas,

government has assured Commons

ABWER DIAN

"If the captain of that tramp steamer wants to talk to me. tell him to come around the back way!"

cisive factor in the war, many st new methods of combating theeography

neutrot 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 E quick balloon barrages on ships being con- change in the whole trend of the voyed through the English Channel.

conflet. But beth sides point out the decks of the British ships inul for

on

that big reserves of food had bren order to block German dive-bombers. war and that But counter attack by Royal Air created before the economic war is a slow process, so Force fighters is still the most re-

their liable defensive weapon, slow that

British ay the blockade is not scheduled to produce,

In addition, British has plowed up a "iclling" effect on Germany until thousands of acres of land normally unused-including many big estutes Inte in 1941.

-to produce food for the winter.

The sharpest disagreement regard-Women have replaced men called to

the the colours to tend the fields. Concemia

ing food prospects of various

conditions

4

rung Hitler forces a gigantic

new task

war-torn areas

BA such France, Belgium, Poland, and Nor-

way.

famine

Will Britain

By David J. Murphy

of a seaway that is swept by the ceive foreign supplies. That was than 50,000,000 persons in eight fiercest tides and is liable to the is unique for its hedges and park-

Nazis.

the

Few Landing Grounds

smaller

One of Britain's strongest progress, and these obstacles

invaders from the air. defences against an invader also present new difficulties for is-Britain!

England has few mountains-- Apart from the man-made (but an abundance of hills. The defences which now ring countryside from the coast in- the coast, Nature has pro- land, is composed of hills and vided the people of Britain sales which could be easily de- fended against much larger with a ready-made fortress. forces. Only on the east const Between the would-be invader fare there stretches of flat coun- A great deal has been said

Germany has transported many about Hitler's supposed "time-|

Typical of the conflicting claims is thousands of Police to the Reich to and his objective there stands try, and to reach them an in- work on farms and has undertaken first the barrier of the sea. Revading army would have to tables" of conquest. Last May Belgium, where U.S. Ambassador during the battle of France, the John Cudahy asserted that 8,000,000 the tremendous task of restoring fore Hitler's army puts a foot face a long sea crossing with

normal channels of supply.

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

Hitler is facing a gigantic task in at the narrowest point, 21 miles it.

Moreover, the British countryside was pumping out with its usual this Autumn 1 they failed to re-governing and making use of more attempted mesmeric insistence a disputed in both London and Berlin. European countries his armies en- succession of rumours, reports,

comparatively few main roads, most tered in the last 17 months, but in most sudden of weather changes. lande. With the exception of the. The British reply was that the addition the Axis powers have sought The seaward approaches to of the highways are narro and 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 Paris would fall about June 16. would continue and that Adolf Hitler Into Nazi-Fascist orbit and

which was inter- among the trickiest In the and stout hedges, which also crie-

cross the countryside. + an armistice be signed on June personally had declared that Ger- resume production

An English hedge has remarkable 27, and that the Army of the many had sufficient stores for a long rupted by long periods of mobilisa-world and now that they are

ton. British sources have reported further protected by secret and powers of resistance. Unless the war and therefore any starvation in poor crop prospects in some Balkan extensive minefields they con-invader were able to land tanks Reich would be in London by Belgium would be the fault of the areas, but the German press is forestitute a great hazard to any highir

doubtful proposition-these August 15,

casting a good harvest.

Innumerable hedges would present a Invader.

tremendous obstacle to Invaders on That dato set for the At Berlin a responsible Germani 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

under normal charged that the Nazis have drained natural element. He fights on into the British capital has long were only slightly

the new territory of food. But the it with all the dash and daring come and gone, and the failure 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.

were accumulated before the German that German welfare organisations

To cross that strip of water which

This multiplicity of hedges natural- been prominently pointed out by

Invasion.

have fed and cared for millions of separates Britain from the Continent, destitute refugees. a waiting world. It is true that

the Germans must first tackle that ly cuts down the size of English In the Netherlands, Belgium, Den- element which is foreign to most of fields, and the number of open spaces upon which troop-carrying acro- Germany claims she is

mark and Norway one of the first them. ready for blockade

effects of German occupation was

considerably

than most.. a German mass air raid of un-

And even if the crossing planes could lend with safety is were accomplished, the invaders people Imagine. Indeed, one of the precedented intensity, adding to Germany at present is prepared to the rationing of food, clothes, shoes,

would find that their difficulties great problems that has had to be the casualties and damage for make up any shortages in the Bel- and other articles.

glan food supply by importations

In the Netherlands and Belgium, were only just beginning. By faced in the R.A.F. expansion pro- which civilization ultimately from the Reich and from other Ger- must hold the Nazi regime man occupied territories, this Berlin

the part of the source said.

returned to their farms and de-Itish coastline is made up of uble sites for conversion into airfield. mobilised soldiers returned to their

The open spaces that remain are morally responsible. But this is "Neither Belgium nor German will jobs in connection with the German rugged cliffs and rocks, many of either hilly or dotted with treas and Many a peace-time air because very different from the land-starve this winter, nor would Ger- campaign to restore normal candl-them bold and precipitous. Ap-hedges.

proved fatal and-sea invasion by hundreds of many starve if the British could tions immediately and thus profit by proximately two-thirds of the crust forced down by engine failure

maintain their blockade for many the production of these nations. coast presents to an invader planes.

came to grief through crashing Into thousands of troops without years," this source continued.

In occupied France, the process shear walls of chalk, clay or an unyielding English hedge. which there could scarcely ba "On the other hand, the situation was far slower and more painful..

veyor of Essex made an appeal any occupation of Britain. And is likely to grow critical in France Many northern French towns and rock, walls that are largely un-Only recently, the County Sur- "thousands and thousands" of wattle and in England, which-unlike Ger- villages were devastated during the scaleable.

used against any pos- the attacking air forces have many are not prepared for such a war and farms were untended be-

Few cause the menfolk were killed or in

alble Invader. He

that declared paid heavily in losses.

alege.

xultable brushwood abounded It is evident that the German Two neutral observers who arrived!

Cattle were killed or driven off by

every hedge and woodland, High Command has more than in Berlin, recently after a short trip

added, "Anyone who has been in a to German-occupled areas of Bel-refugees or seized by armies., Areas

Much of the west coast of battle zone knows that a good hurdle its own speed of movement to glum and France said that surface along the English Channel coast are

England can be ruled out as tho is worth its weight in gold there." calculate in setting any supposed indications Nazcalms. These ob-

seemed to like dead country.

It would be no exaggeration to say Denmark recently had to slaughter possible scene of sca-borne in- support the Naz schedule of triumphs, and that servers said that, while it was im- many cattle because of inability to vasion. If this form of attack that un invader would and hundreds of thousands of these hurdles stretch- any would-be hypnotic assertions possible to make it a thorough in-import feed for them.

is to come, it will probably being out across the whole of England vestigation, the restaurants and the put out from Berlin as part of markets were operating and there

launched against one of the few-in the shope. of hedges that have

been rooted in for centuries,⠀ at stretches of coastline-01 Another fact of great importance is the propaganda of war to seemed to be plenty of food.

the east, 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 should not be fatalistically neutrals in Europe is that both Ger-

coast of Kent, Sussex and

than 2,000,000 mony and Britain face a tremendous! There is in the problem in organising food supplies accepted.

Saya Neutral Reporter Hampshire. Hi ha med grassland have been put to the British-resistance a morale, as long as the war continues. Both

have taken far-reaching measures Hitler, seeking justincallon for at Or else the attacker must plough in the drive for greater food production thus reducing till fur- unity and determination, which toward that objective and toward tacking open towns, and for using concentrate on small gaps in the ther: the spaces on which it would Nazi arms have not heretofore choking off the enemy's supplies. poison gas, is preparing an appeal to higher coastline, gaps which are be possible to land air-borne troops, encountered; and to a poople British experts have made a study the world for realisation that these well-guarded. But England not facing en defending their homeland from of European conditions and they actions are prompted by "humane The steps that have been ordinary invader. The Germans taken to prepare the danger would probably be willing to sacrifice wanton attack there are, more will be eating into their reserves the The Berlin reporter of an Athens points of the coast against in-her, last--and most formidable op over, factors of aid which a coming winter. They reported belief newspaper reported that Nazi envoys vasion are secret but anyone ponent. Thats why every pre-

that difficulties of distribution would all over the world will shortly notify materialism cannot

cause severe shortages in areas such the Governments to which they are who has visited these defence caution is being taken, and why the as occupied France and that the food accredited that this war is "too areas can see for himself evilds and parklands which were

terrible to go on."dence of the extensiveness and once so pleasant to the gyn are

marred by, every kind of The Apostle James warned

"Britain alone," men against saying, "To-day or slaughty. The people who up-

alleged. Is responsible for the war tions.dirne Drain pipes, 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, and other buy and orderly, constructive living

humanity, Germany must use every centrated, in Britain is ready to litter the green. a city even merely to buy

that the means to bring Britain to her deal with any Germans who von sell for gain, counselling that on among nations have strong, kneos.

Ature on an invasion by sea. 201 the Lord's willingness depended-abiding inner conviction to

"Facing this project, the German If a German force did succeed all human plans. Providence suppo their affirmation that Government feels justined abro in gaining a footing, there are fa certainly bestows no

sno blessing timetables of destruction do not rating her former pledges to the upon the will to ravage and ĭtru

pagan fathom.

contend that most, if not all nations

German prison camps.

Hitler Thinks Poison Gas Humane'

motives.".

Gaps in hurdles, to be the Wall

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for

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and

}'aeres - of

million men la jadar, tog

It will be intensiveness of tithe preparats possible pers

world, that open cities wil bo mared many other natural as and that poison as will not be used to man-made obstacles to un