MORALE WEAKER

Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 70, 19 September 1941, Page 5

MORALE WEAKER

GERMAN PEOPLE

TOURIST'S IMPRESSIONS

PROGRESS IN EAST CAUSES WORRY

(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.)

(Rec. 12.50 p.m.) . LONDON, September .18. The German public have entered the third year of the war with their morale weakened, although it is not yet near breaking point. The reason for this is that the Germans are worried by the slow progress of their army in Russia compared with the rate of the western offensive, and are tasting the horrors of war at first hand as a result of the Royal Air Force bombings.

These are the of a correspondent of the Zurich "Neve Zurcher Nachrichten," who returned from a tour of Germany. He summarises his impressions as follows:—Every German is asking when the war will end. The average German wants peace, but still more he wants victory, because he fears the consequences if Germany is defeated. The people are still convinced that final victory is possible. Eight million women gre engaged in war work, and four million foreign workers, half of whom are prisoners of war, are making up for the shortage of man-power resulting from the ■callup of 12,000,000 men. The Royal Air ; Force raids are so heavy that the Germans are saying that they will bomb Royal Air Force aerodromes first and war industries afterwards.

The correspondent adds that there is enough food to go round, but that it is not as nourishing as the pre-war food.