INSIDE GERMANY

Evening Star, Issue 24283, 26 August 1942, Page 5

INSIDE GERMANY

HOSPITALS FULL OF WOUNDED

GOEBBELS OH RUSSIA

LONDON, August 24. The Istanbul correspondent of ‘ The Times ’ sayr> that a party of Turkish journalists have returned from Germany, where - ' they were the guests of the German Government. They report that food is scare but nobody is reallystarving. The hospitals are full of wounded, and Vthere is hardly a family which is not mourning a member killed or maimed. Shop windows display rich assortments of articles, few, if any, of which ;can be purchased. Dr Goebbels, addressing the visitors, declared that Gm’.many never intended to conquer the entire Soviet Union* but aimed to rendci’ ft harmless, which would be achieved Before the winter. It would then be uy"> to the "British to decide what to do n ext. An Allied invasion was absolute!,’/ out of the question. The German . i; staff had found it dangerous and imprai -ticahle to invade England in 1940, who,a she was (practically disarmed, but ii' would be much more difficult for the 1 Allies if they attempted to reverse tire process when Germany was fully pit pared to receive them.

MIDDLE EAST COMMAND

SPECULATION REGARDING CHANGES

SYDNEY, August 21. Some clue to the future of General Sir Claude Auchinleck, who has been replaced by General Sir Harold Alexander as Commander-in-Chief,. Middle East, is being sought (states a iLondou correspondent of the ‘ Sydney M ommg Herald ’) by the British public, Informed comment questions the wisdom of changing the command at a time when an Axis offensive t\samst 'the Nile Delta is possible. e Is also surprise at the transfer of Genital Alexander to a front away from _ the Far East, as be is the only End ash. general to have fought the Japan* is® at close quarters throughout the to r Y difficult rearguard action in Burma. . Some observers also hint _ that ta ® conference between the British Prina Minister. Mr Churchill, and the South • African Prime Minister, General Smuts, when the former visited the Middle East; on his way to Moscow, was connected with the change of commanders-in-chief. The public is wondering whether General Auchinleck has proved mctmipeteut or whether his field appointments have caused difficulties, which have resulted in the change j whether repercussions, particularly in South Africa, following the fall of Tobruk, led to pressure for reorganisation; or whether General Auchinleck will receive more responsible work. South African casualties at Tohrufc were 10,100, most of whom have been classified “ missing ” or “ missing believed! prisoners,” and this has caused perturbation throughout South Africa. This somewhat resembles Australian, alarm ■ after the Greek, Crete, and Malayan campaigns. , , The delicate political position in south Africa and. General Smuts’s suggestion that he should meet Mr Churchill m Cairo give weight to the suggestion that General Smuts influenced the reorganisation.

NEWS IN BRIEF

IMPORTANT CONFERENCES IN BRITAIN

LONDON, August 24.—The ‘Daily Telegraph ’ says that a series mt important conferences will now he held in which very high military, naval, and. air staff officers will paiticipate. These began before Mr Churchill’s return, and will now enter a more advanced Bt WASHINGTON, August ,25.—the screen star Henry Fonda has enlisted in the navy as an apprentice seaman. Tyrone Power was sworn in as a private in the Marino Corps. WASHINGTON. August 20. A. former circus “ human skeleton, • Eugene Pape, who is 6ffc lin and weighs 4st 71b, was refused enlistment in the United States army. CANBERRA, August 25.—Government control of industry to ensure the most efficient use of man power _ and resources is tightened, up by ,national security regulations which were gazetted to-day. Whore formerly tue regulation of employment was largely. confined to protected industries, tno new order enables a Minister to taka action in connection with any class. ot employment he may specify from tuna to time. _ . RUGBY, August 24.—The plum crop in Britain, which was estimated .to amount to 100,000 tons this year will be nearer 120,000, of which 45,000 are now being harvested in Kent by so,* diers, women, and children. of the crop will be wasted. About 70.000 tons will go on to the market, 20.000 tons will be made into jam, and the remainder will.be pulped for jammaking later. ■ NEW YORK, August 25.—Thomas Dewey, a former New York City District Attorney, has been nominated for the Governorship of New York State at the Republican Convention. Thai Convention also adopted a war platform embodying the principles advocated by Mr Wendell Willkie, whicli call for a fight to a finish against Hitlerism and a broad programme of postwar world co-operation. PORT ARTHUR (Ontario), Aug. 24* —-The Premier, Mr Mitchell Hepburn,criticised Canada’s war effort. Peopla were still sheltering, he declared, _ behind the American eagle and the British lion. “We can never t fight m war,” he added, “ with a narrowminded, bigoted party in charge at Ottawa. We had better stop losing: thtf war before we talk about winning. .

CONSPIRING WITH GESTAPO

AMERICAN TRAINED IN GERMANY

NEW YORK, August 25 Herbert Bahr was convicted by th« Federal Court of conspiring with tins Gestapo to spy in the United States. Bahr faces a possible death penalty. The Federal Bureau of Investigation discovered Bahr’s espionage activities during inquiries in regard to the passengers on the diplomatic exchanga ship Drottingholm. Bahr, who is aqj American citizen, returned to the United States on the_ Drottingholm after very intensive training in espioiw age methods in Germany.