WAR ITEMS

Grey River Argus, 16 September 1941, Page 2

WAR ITEMS

LONDON. September 12. Appealing for contributions to the winter relief fund, Hitler, in a written statement instead of the usual broadcast, said: “The success of the German soldiers, and their sacrifice of blood, calls for privations unprecedented in history. The soldirs are fighting a gigantic struggle for the existence of the German nation and for the maintenance of Europe. “The enemy is not human, but composed of ferocious unites,” he said. “May the German home front prove worthy of the soldier’s hero- ' ism.” It is disclosed in Moscow that only nine hundred of thirteen hundred women, children, and wounded soldiers were saved from the Soviet hospital ship Siberia which was set on fire and sunk by a German bomber on August 19.