BLOCKADE EFFECTS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 January 1940, Page 5

BLOCKADE EFFECTS

GERMANY NOW STRIKING BLINDLY. BRITISH PAPER’S COMMENT. LONDON, January 1. The “Daily Telegraph,” which devotes a leading article to the New Year, looks at the picture on the other side of the war fronts. Under the grip of the blockade, it states. Germany is already striking blindly at neutrals and herself. “Proof of the anxiety of the Fuehrer and his cabal is betrayed in their exhortations for 1940, which are strange mixtures of brag and bluster and whining and apprehension,” it continues. “The unhappy German people are told by Herr Hitler himself that his leadership has brought them to the hardest fight in their history, a fight for existence or non-existence.” RALLYING OPINION. FRENCH VIEW OF HITLER’S NEW FORMATION. PARIS, January 1. A semi-official reply to Herr Hiller’s “war aims” and his message to the Nazi Party declared that it was evident that Herr Hitler was anxious to rally public opinion which sees hopes of victory diminishing. The reply adds: “Since his collusion with Moscow Herr Hitler’s formula has changed. He now blames Jewish capitalism instead of Jewish Marxism.”