WAR PRODUCTION

Grey River Argus, 27 March 1943, Page 1

WAR PRODUCTION

DOWN IN GERMANY. THROUGH RAIDS AND STRIKES. (Rec. 10.40.) LONDON, March 25. According to reliable sources inside of Germany, R.A.F. bombings in Western Germany have forced down the production of ’planes there by thirty per cent., and of steel and coal by fifty per • cent. ’ The same sources also report that output is seriously hampered by sabotage and by non-co-operation on the part of conscripted foreign workers, who are considered sources of defeatist infection. German labourers’ strikes are reported in many Ruhr plants, where the strikers demand to be removed to unexposed .factories, or to be given increased protection. A lowering of morale is also noticeable in Berlin and other big cities, where even rationed foods are unobtainable and “black market” prices alre skyrocketing. For example a pound of coffee costs two hundred marks, compared with sixty marks last year; a pound of butter costs sixty marks compared with ten last year; and a pound of tea nine hundred marks.