FOOD SCARCE IN GERMANY

Southland Times, Issue 24832, 26 August 1942, Page 5

FOOD SCARCE IN GERMANY

NO REAL STARVATION (Rec. 9.35 p.m.) LONDON, August 24. The Istanbul correspondent of The Times says Turkish journalists who have returned from Germany, where they were guests of the German Government, report that food is scarce, but nobody is really starving. The hospitals are full of wounded and hardly any family is not mourning a member killed or maimed. Shop windows display rich assortments, few, if any, of which can be purchased. The Propaganda Minister, _ Dr Josef Goebbels, addressing the visitors, declared that Germany had never intended to conquer the entire Soviet Union. It aimed to make the Soviet Union harmless, which would be achieved before the winter. It was then up to the British to decide what to do next. An Allied invasion was absolutely out of the question. The German Staff had found it dangerous and impracticable to invade England in 1940, when she was practically disarmed. It would be much more difficult for the Allies if they attempted to reverse the process when Germany was fully prepared to receive them.