GERMANS’ PROBLEMS
RAILWAYS DISORGANISED LONDON, Aug. 13., Reports reaching Czechoslovak circles in London-' suggest that the transport difficulties which are facing Germany are seriously affecting the economic advantages which she hoped to derive from the conquest of the 3alkans. There are many signs that goods traffic on the German railways in general has been gravely disorganised by the strain put on them by the eastern campaign and by bombings. The transport of goods from Vienna to Dresden, a distance of 250 miles, now takes a month, as against two days before the war. At present the Germans do not dare to send goods from the south-east via Bohemia for fear of sabotage there, and all traffic diverted is thus slowing it down even more. For goods sent to Germany from Bohemia and the Balkans the railway trucks of the respective despatching countries only may be used, the German railways having no trucks to spare.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20638, 19 August 1941, Page 5
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