GERMAN PEOPLE

Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 61, 9 September 1941, Page 6

GERMAN PEOPLE

MORALE CRUMBLING

BOMBING BEGINS TO

TELL

COMMUNISTS ACTIVE

(By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright.) NEW YORK. September 8. Another chapter in the life of the German people is described by the Stockholm correspondent of the "New Tork Times," whose report is based on the observations of a neutral eye-witness who has just left Germany. The morale of the people, says the message, is very rapidly weakening as a result oi the continuous air raids. Bemedalled Hermann Goering, who promised immunity from air aids, is now called a "damned fat liar." Whatever war enthusiasm had prevailed before completely disappeared in the early weeks of the clash with Russia.

A well-organised underground Communist movement covers the walls of

factories with anti-Hitler slogans and incitements to sabotage. These activities have infuriated the Gestapo, which on one occasion chalked beneath the slogans, "Why don't you write this in daytime?" , .

Next night the Communists wrote beneath it, "Because we are too busy in the daytime parading for Hitler."