MASS EVACUATIONS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 34, 9 August 1943, Page 5

MASS EVACUATIONS

ALL MAIN GERMAN CITIES

LONDON, August*?.

The evacuation of Berlin and Hamburg is .only a part of a mass evacuation which has become a psychological impulse throughout Germany, says Reuters correspondent on the German frontier.

Germans are leaving all the main cities, according to the "Kolnischer Zeitung." The great migration is now proceeding as a result of British and American bombing.

Dr. Goebbels, in a front-page article in the "Volkischer Beobachter," promises to stay in Berlin whatever happens. "I personally, as gauleiter of Berlin, will naturally remain in the capital," he declared. "My work is here."

The Berlin correspondent of the Stockholm "Afton Tidningen" says it is impossible to speak of Hamburg as a community. "The use of money has practically stopped," he writes. "You get on and get off buses as you like. No fares are asked for or paid. You sleep where you can, and large concrete shelters are preferred. You eat at public field kitchens, where no charge is made for food. Firemen have come to Hamburg from all parts of the Reich, even from as far away as Vienna."

The "Frankfurter Zeitung" warned the German population: "Enemy statements leave no doubt that the entire German homeland is threatened by terror attacks."

Reuters Stockholm correspondent says arrivals from Berlin say that panic occurred when the R.A.F. recently dropped leaflets on Berlin warning people to expect the same fate as Hamburg. Thousands rushed to the stations and others streamed out of the city on bicycles and on foot.

Reports are circulating in Istanbul that German circles say Berlin will be proclaimed an open city and Ministries and other important services will be evacuated to Dresden, Leipzig, Munich, and Prague.