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PRESS GANG METHODS

NAZIS IN OCCUPIED COUNTRIES SORRY TALES OF PRIVATION (British Ollicial Wireless,) RUGBY, December 28. The press gang methods employed by Germany throughout tho countries of Europe now under her domination wore strikingly underlined by a writer in tho ‘ Economist.’• More than a quarter of the 1.500,000 to 2,000,000 workers normally employed in Belgian industry, the writer says, are now working for Germany. Roughly 210,000 Belgian workers wore sent to Germany, and 190,000 are working on German orders in Belgian industry. The number of registered unemployed.still amounts to some 70,000, and the number of Belgians who refused to go to Germany is even greater—they are no longer registered, and receive no unemployment benefit. Tho writer concludes, however, that Beligum is probably one of the weakest links in Germany’s war-time organisation of Europe. Meanwhile, from all over Europe, by fact and bv inference, comes evidence of the weight of the Nazi heel. Conditions in Finland are typical. A professor, writing of these conditions in a Swedish newspaper, says thaU eggs, flour, and potatoes are unobtainable. In a public institution breakfast for the personnel consisted of dark bread and chopped swede turnips. One Finnish newspaper has the courage to challenge the totalitarian ideals that are seeping into the country, and the chief organ of the Labour Party in Helsingfors states that Nazi circles have started attempts to create dissension bv attacking tho democratic system of the country. One writer on Finnish conditions stated: “There is no meat, for we have had our month’s ration, which lasts only two or three days. Wo have to queue up for fish. During the spring and summer we went three "months without tasting meat.” A pointer from Bulgaria is contained in the Bulgarian newspaper, ‘ Aprilok,’ which states ; “ It is useless to point out that the cost of living in Germany has risen only 6 to 7- per cent, since the beginning of the war and forget that this is offset by the restriction of consumption to a minimum much lower than, ours.” Another Bulgarian paper says; “ Maiiv countries in Europe are now accustomed to horseflesh, but prejudice exists in Bulgaria against it for no scientific reason. Doctors throughout the country should conduct a campaign recommending it.” A similar sorry tale of privation comes from Paris, where, according to the 1 .Tarior Zoitung. 1 no meat may in future he served in restaurants on Mondays. Tuesdays, "Wednesdays, and Fridays’. ami no sausage on Mondays. Tuesdays! and Thursdays. The ration of cigarettes is now 40 every tenth clay.

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Evening Star, Issue 24081, 30 December 1941, Page 4

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PRESS GANG METHODS Evening Star, Issue 24081, 30 December 1941, Page 4

PRESS GANG METHODS Evening Star, Issue 24081, 30 December 1941, Page 4

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