NAZI MANPOWER
STRAIN OF RUSSIAN WAR
WORKERS MAN GUNS
LONDON, October 29. More evidence of Germany's man-power problems, was given today by the Berlin correspondent of a Swiss newspaper. This writer says many of the anti-air-craft batteries in Germany are now manned by workers from factories who have replaced troops transferred to the Russian front.
Another correspondent tells of the terrible effects of Britain's new bombs. He says that about one-third of the people killed in the last R.A.F. raid on Cologne were actually in air-raid shelters, though the shelters were not actually hit. but were damaged by the blast.
Many of the large buildings hit were pierced by the bombs from top to bottom.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 105, 30 October 1942, Page 5
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115NAZI MANPOWER Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 105, 30 October 1942, Page 5
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