GERMANY’S BAD START
COMPARISON WITH LAST WAR. Her shortage in the materials for munitions of war is not the only disadvantage under which Germany labours in standing the threatened siege, writes “Scrutator" in the "Sunday Times.” In 1914 her people were in the pink of condition, prosperous, well fed and well paid. She lost the war largely because the naval blockade, by depriving her of fats and other essentials of diet, had caused a general depression which did even more than any defeats in the field to convince the Germans that they could not possibly win. Germany begins this war much where she left off in the last war. She no longer thinks herself invincible, her people have been overworked and un-der-fed for a long time: for before Hitler came into power the country's plight was often miserable. If one translates these national handicaps into terms of a garrison about to undergo a long and hard siege there is good reason to believe that what happened in the last war will happen again and happen sooner.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 November 1939, Page 6
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176GERMANY’S BAD START Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 November 1939, Page 6
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