HEALTH CRACKING

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21550, 1 November 1944, Page 3

HEALTH CRACKING

WORKERS IN GERMANY LONG HOURS & TRAINING AIR TRAINEES IN ARMY (9 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 31. German workers are breaking under the strain of long working hours added to compulsory training lor home defence, says the Daily' Express correspondent on the German frontier. The Germans are forced to work from 60 to 72 hours a week in factories ana then do several hours daily training in the Volkssturrn (Home Guard). Hundreds are falling ill every day. The Berlin newspaper Volks Zcitung warned the Nazis that Germany had not sufficient arms to provide the Vuikssturm even with improvised equipment. The paper said: “Primitive weapons cannot stop tanks and pitchforks are of no use against machine-guns. To fling themselves on the invading forces will cost, the German people rivers of blood. ’ Tne Moscow radio says that ihe German High Command is closing German air force training camps ana sending the trainees as troops to the fiont lines. The radio quotes Corporal Herbert Schwartz, of the 551st German Infantry Division, who was captured recently on the eastern in in. Corporal Schwartz said that several units of his division were formed of flying school trainees. Another captured German, an officer, who served for five years as a flying instructor, said that his seiiooi had been closed and the staff sent to a military camp near Worms.