NAZIS’ GROWING PROBLEM

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXII, Issue 255, 26 September 1942, Page 5

NAZIS’ GROWING PROBLEM

EFFECT OF AIR RAIDS. LONDON, Sept. 24. “Foreign observers have become increasinngly convinced that continual pounding from the air of the Germans’ industrial centres during tlie winter will force the Germans to tllelr knees in a much shorter time than is usually believed in Allied circles, says a correspondent of the Dally Telegraph “somewhere in Europe. “The observers declare that the raids have directly affected a.t least 10,000,000 Germnns. The evacuation of refugees is becoming a problem and is threatening to defeat even the thorough German administration. Two thousand women and children were forced to spend two days in a train in which they had travelled to a refugee town before lodgings could be found for them. “Ono of the authorities’ greatest difficulties is where to sb.nd the evacuees now that the Russians are attacking Eastern Germany, which was formerly considered safe, thousands of Alsatians with ‘doubtful views are being deported to Germany in order to make room for refugees. “The uneasiness so increased after the raids against Frankfurt and Munich that several divisions of picked guards were recalled from the Eastern Front to reinforce the police in the bombed areas.” _ The Berlin radio stated that rtr Ley, as Vice-Commissioner of Private Dwellings, lins visited many parts ol Germany, including Hamburg Bremen" where 41 the housing problem is specially distressing because of war conditions.” WARPLANE OUTPUT.

A Los Angeles cable says that tile combined warplane production of Britain and America in Septeinbef will exceed the total output of Germany, Italy and Japan by 25 per cent., according to Mr Men ill Meigs, the AVar Production Board official, who has arrived with a British air mission.

Mr A Dunbar, an official of the British Ministry of Aircraft Production, declared: “Your Lockheed Hudson bomber has been a godsend to us in the last two years. The Curtiss Kittyhawk fighters are for the Middle East. Let Us keep the Spitfires for home, Where they are needed. Altogether tho British and American planes fighting side by side make a ■Wonderful team.”