PLUNDERED BY NAZIS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 25, 30 January 1942, Page 6

PLUNDERED BY NAZIS

SURPLUS PRODUCTS OF

EUROPE

RUGBY, January 29,

The plundering of Europe by the German occupiers has produced one result of peculiar significance—those products for which the countries are noted are precisely the products of which they are the most short today.

France is a land of wine-growers, yet wine there is rationed to two litres a week. Germany, meanwhile, is taking 500,000,000 litres a year, because Ger-% many needs alcohol for blending with motor spirit.

An economic expert, giving this example, has added several more. Italy is famous for olives and macaroni. Both are now strictly rationed there, because Germany needs them.

Rumania is a wheat- and oil-produc-ing country, yet Rumania has two breadless days a week and no private motoring is allowed. The Nazis, of course, need both wheat and oil, which are transported to Germany in vast quantities. ' Czecho-Slovakia has huge boot factories, but shoes there, when they are obtainable, are wooden-soled—because Germany is short of leather and the German army must be shod. —8.0. W. , LONDON, January 29. Frank, the Nazi Governor of Poland, has issued a decree declaring that the entire Polish nation is deprived of nationality, says "The Times" correspondent on the French frontier. Frank describes the Poles as "Stateless." The decree also curiously says that the Poles within the Reich are not foreigners.

The Swedish newspaper "Dagens Nyheter" says it is reported from Oslo that Quisling will become the formal head of the Norwegian Government on January 30. He is likely to occupy a position similar to that of Admiral Horthy (Regent and—under the Nazis —dictator of Hungary).