“A GLOOMY STATE”
GERMANY’S RAILWAYS DAY AND NIGHT RAIDING (10 a.m.) RUGBY, Feb. 8. A spokesman at Field Marshal Montgomery’s Headquarters said the Allied clay and night bombing had reduced Germany’s vast railway system, which formerly was the most efficient in Europe, to a gloomy state, says an Associated Press correspondent. Rail cuts which used to be repaired in little more than two hours are now so numerous that from six hours to two days are required to put them right. Trains now travel with two engines in case one should be destroyed. Four empty trucks are placed in front of and behind the ammunition trucks so that other war goods may not be destroyed if the ammunition is exploded by the Allied planes.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21633, 9 February 1945, Page 3
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