LIKE LOCUSTS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 177, 29 July 1941, Page 7

LIKE LOCUSTS

I GERMANS IN GREECE

Stripped Private Gardens; Sent Eatables Home I'liin-i] I'l-.-ss .Wm-ln I Inn.—Copyright. Roc. 1 p.m. LONDON, July 28. A first-hand account of how the German Army stripped Greece ; before the Italians arrived, was given to the -Daily Telegraph" j Lisbon correspondent by Ralph Kent, a member of the staff of the i American College at Athens. '"The Greeks aptly called the invaders locusts," he said. "They rolled I down the peninsula, leaving nothing behind them. They even entered private gardens, counted the rows lof vegetables and informed the J owners that they were eommani deered. "I watched Germans in a potato field near Athens. They dug the potatoes, cooked and canned them on the spot and dispatched them to Germany. Technically the Germans bought everything but paid oneeighth of the market price. "The relations between the Italians and the Germans was anything but friendly. The Italian occupying forces will find it impossible to live in the country after the way the Germans have stripped it," "he conj eluded. i NORWAY'S PLIGHT I -~—~ —— i Slender Resource Plundered I For Nazi Armv i / XEARIXG STARVATION STAGE Rec. 1.30 p.m. LONDON, July 28. A distinguished Norwegian sur-i geon, who has escaped to Britain, estimates that Norway will reach the starvation stage in "the spring of 1942. He told a "Daily Telegraph" representative that their slender resources had been plundered to feed the army of occtipation and to replenish the laixlers of Germany. Many goods were unobtainable, including meat, bacon and eggs. Farmers were ordered to cut down their semi-ripe harvests to feed German army horses. The Germans demand the forfeiture of 60 per cent of the fish in return for a petrol ration for fishing boats. It is reported from Gothenburg that a large party of young Norwegians succeeded in reaching England last week in several fishing boats. Fifty, who failed to escape, were thrown into a concentration camp.