CZECH SABOTAGE
RATIONING BY GERMANS LIMITED FOOD SUPPLIES FINES AND IMPRISONMENT (Official Wireless) (Received June 7 ,11 a.m.) RUGBY, June 0 Fresh evidence of Czech efforts to sabotage Nazi food schemes has reached Czechoslovak quarters in London. The Czechs attempt to defeat the German rationing system, under which they themselves get strictly limited supplies of food while their surplus production goes to Germany. Illicit sales of home-produced rationed foodstuffs are rapidly increasing in volume, and according to statistics published by the Prague paper, Venkov, penalties of 8,000,000 crowns and sentences totalling 156 years of forced labour or imprisonment had been imposed on offenders from January to the first days of May. Since then the official paper, Der Neue Tag, has published the names of more offenders. These lists sometimes run into two pages. One of the heaviest sentences of this kind—three years of forced labour and loss of civil liberties for five years—was passed on a butcher in Pilsen who had slaughtered ten pigs without permission.
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Waikato Times, Volume 128, Issue 21441, 7 June 1941, Page 7
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