DRAIN ON GERMANY

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 22, 26 January 1940, Page 7

DRAIN ON GERMANY

ANNEXED TERRITORY

OBSERVER'S PREDICTION

(Daventry Broadcast.)

LONDON, Thursday Night.

Recent reports from Vatican sources of the hardships of the people in Poland are borne out by an account of conditions as seen through German eyes. This description was given to a neutral journalist by a German ho is one of the few non-military people who have been allowed to travel in Poland since the Nazi invasion.

He claimed that the territory annexed by Germany would be a liability and a drain on the Nazi strength, at least until. next summer. In many places planting had been neglected, he said, and many Polish and Jewish businesses had been damaged during the war. Others had been confiscated and turned over to Germans or remained idle, because, to use the Ger-

[man phrase, "their owners have dis- , appeared." ! [ Reviewing the reconstruction of 53 I bridges by German troops, a newspaper report says that the workers | were molested by Polish bandits, who were suppressed immediately. The paper goes on to say that many Polish [villages had to be burned during the campaign because Polish snipers shot jat German troops from them. It also ; admits that the further one penetrates ! into Poland the more extensive the damage becomes. Warsaw, which was about three-quarters damaged during the war, is not expected to be rebuilt.