RAILWAY PROBLEMS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 192, 15 August 1941, Page 7

RAILWAY PROBLEMS

(*ermans Asked To Restrict

T ravelling

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Rc-c. 10 .JO am. LONDON Aug. 14

An official appeal to the German public not to travel unnecessanh. reveals that many of the holiday places arc packed with wounded soldiers. states message from Zurich.

Reports reaching Czechoslovakia circles in Ixmdon suggest that the transport difficulties which are facing Germany are sei iouslv affecting Uneconomic advantage.- which sh<hoped to derive* from the conque-' of tiie Balkan.-. There art- man\ si ens that goods tiaff.c o:i the

man railways m general ha< been Bravely disorganized by the strain put on them by the eastern campaign and by bombing-.

The transport of goods from \ ienna to Dresden, a distance of 2.V miles, now takes a month, as again*-!, two days before the war.

At present the German- do 'v.t dare to send goods from ihe southeast via Bohemia for fear of sabotag< there, and al! traffic diverted is thuslowing it down ci en more . For goods sent to Gcnnanv from 'Bohemia and the Balkans'the rs k way trucks of the re pemve dispaf!'ring countries only ms> be used, the German railways having no trucks to spare.