HARVEST PROSPECTS
BRITAIN AND THE AXIS LONDON, July 5. While Britain is having a record harvest, there is every indication that the Axis countries have a bad harvest. The Minister of Agriculture, Mr. Hudson, said: "This harvest will probably mean the best part of 100,000,000 tons. We should reap a harvest which I will live in the memory of man. We I are ciartng on the toughest harvesting i job in our history. That is why we | have asked-for 500.000 volunteers. We | shall manage only if the whole farming i community produces its last ounce oj jeffort." The Gorman farm leader, Herr GusI tav Eehrens, speaking on Berlin radio, { suggested that the German harvest will .be poor and that farmers are not cooperating. Berlin radio claimed that there was a fair harvest in the Ukraine, where the area under cultivation is claimed Ito be greater than when the Russians I controlled the area. | A Moscow message says that the Ger« imans are making system-tic attempts [to settle themselves in the Ukraine ["for ever" Several hundred thcu^and ; German civilians rre estimated to have ! settled in tho TTiorunp. wtv^e bey ?nd 1 are being; t?u"ht how to rile the i Ukrainians and fight gur ~i!!as.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 5, 6 July 1943, Page 5
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