HOSTELS FOR SOLDIERS
ERECTION IN NORWAY SIGNIFICANT NAZI MOVE ißritish Official Wireless) RUGBY, Feb. 4. (Received Feb. 5, at ,11 p.m.) A German appeal for funds for building hostels for German soldiers in Norway is remarked by all correspondents of neutral newspapers in Berlin. According to press messages from Zurich, hostels are being erected from North Cape to Oslo Herr Hitler spent 1,000,000 marks on them, and public societies subscribed a further 3,000,000 marks. More is to be raised by public collections. The goal aimed at is, in fact. 12,000,000 marks. In view of Herr Hitler’s twicerepeated solemn declaration that the war with Britain would be concluded this year, the erection of hostels on such a costly scale and —by implication —of such durability is considered evidence of Herr Hitler’s intention not to withdraw the soldiers from Norway after the war. Alternatively, it may be that the Fuhrer envisages the possibility of postponement of victory '■•elebrationi-
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24525, 6 February 1941, Page 7
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