EVALUATION OF GERMANS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 142, 17 May 1941, Page 7

EVALUATION OF GERMANS

j SEQUEL TO R.A.F. RAIDS. I . I (British Official YY'ireless.) ’ 1 r< RUGBY, Alay 15. ! The faci that Royal Air Force raids! , have compelled a large-scale evaoua- j • tion of children from north and west j Germany to Czechoslovakia, Poland and Austria is the subject of comment by the Manchester Guardian. “.To judge from a report recently I made by Baldar von Sebirach, the par-! j cuts at first hung hack from sending I | their children away,” says the paper. I ; | “Then there was a storm of evacua-! • lion, particularly from Hamburg, Bre-; men a.iul Berlin, the great towns of I j the west. (This was before the last! ! series of heavy British raids.) I “A considerable strain was put on ; j the transport system. Some idea of! ji ho recent increase can he gathered! j from the figures of the Polish YVar- j ,thegau. At the end of December there were only 15,000 Berlin children there. ! By February 26 there were 100,000. j “A. Czech report says 150.000 refugees, both child and adult, have arrived in Bohemia and Aloravia and 32 districts have been compulsorily 'j evacuated by order of the Protector ito make room for them. This figure ' j lias probably been doubled by now. I “The general inference is that the j ' German evacuation has been a bur- ' 'ried affair for which no adequate pro- ' ! i paration was made. It has now been \ extended on a huge scale, and Gcr- ' many and the tributary countries offer enormous tracts that can- be counted j , as ‘safe areas.’ All the same, it is a ' side of the war that must have had , an effect on flic confidence of the or- : ( dinary people.”