TURNING AGAINST GERMANY

Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 241, 13 October 1942, Page 5

TURNING AGAINST GERMANY

WHAT CONTINENTAL OBSERVERS SAY. HUNS LOSE FAITH AND HOPE.

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RUGBY, Oct. 11.

The Germans have lost all hope and faith in victory, according to M. Jean Blondel, a former French Minister at Dublin, who joined the Fighting French when ordered by Vichy to return from the Legation at Sofia. Interviewed at Cairo, he said that the Bulgarians themselves now admitted that they were facing their third defeat. M. Blondel said that the German naval attache at Sofia. had declared a few months ago that the German Navy was absolutely inadequate in ships and personnel to perform the tremendous work asked of it. One German officer had told the French naval attache: "Monsieur, if I was French I would be with De Gaulle." "Famine is sweeping Belgium. The health of the people is lamentable through lack of food and fuel, and concentration camps and prisons are overflowing," said M. Antoine Delfosse, the Belgian Minister for Jus-

tice and Information, who recently escaped from Belgium, when making a statement in London. "For every one executed a hundred will rise," he declared. "The Church has stood in the van of resistanee. Belgium is loyally attached to the monarchy. All eyes and ears are turned to London, whence victory must come. "From Cologne and other Rhineland cities come streams of German civilians seeking refuge. This is just the turning of the scales, and has aroused no pity among the Belgians, who jump for joy when they hear British aircraft overhead. "The Belgians are quick to notice signs of German disintegration. Witli the exception of the coast, there are only old, tired German soldiers in Belgium. "I was living in Belgium a few days ago with and under the Boche, and I tell you that the German soldiers, who were formerly smart and alert, are no longer enthusiastic. They are dull and depressed, and complain in the streets >and eafes about the length of the war."