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GERMAN SPECTRE

Food Shortage Developing In

Vital Phase Of War

LOW IIEbEKVKH. POOR HARVEST

Rec 2 p.m. LONDON. May 15. Germany enters a decisive phase of the war faced, as in 1917, with the grim spectre of approaching starvation, says the Daily Telegraph's diplomatic correspondent. Competent observers consider that Germany is able to exist until the next harvest in July with the existing hard-scale rationing. She should then survive through one more winter, but collapse is inevitable before the winter of 19-13-44. This is undoubtedly a cautious estimate. A combination or otner factors could bring the Nazi machine to a standstill substantially soonei, unless the Germans defeat tne Russians outright before next winter. Reich rations were cut last month. The great reserves built up before the war proved wholly Insufficient for the needs of .Europe. The harvests of 1940 and 1941 were well under standard, and the 1942 will be worse, because sowing was down 20 to 40 per cent.

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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 114, 16 May 1942, Page 7

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GERMAN SPECTRE Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 114, 16 May 1942, Page 7

GERMAN SPECTRE Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 114, 16 May 1942, Page 7