GROWING RIFT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 October 1941, Page 6

GROWING RIFT

HOW GERMANS ARE HATED IN FRANCE. Letters from France that reach the outside world in spite of all that the Germans can do show the terrible conditions obtaining in that unfortunate country. They indirectly emphasise the rift that is growing every day more threatening between Vichy and the rest of France, both the unoccupied and the occupied zones. “We have been without meat for a month,” says one letter. The writer continues: “In Lille many babies have died. They only have skimmed milk, often cold because there is no coal or wood to make fires and many have no gas. “At Calais and Boulogne there are also many dead, to say nothing of those killed in air raids.

- “In Paris we learn conditions are very bad and that people often fight in the streets.”

Another letter is from Toulouse: “Entire train loads of eatables leave Toulouse for Germany. The rations allowed to us are unobtainable. There are no more bottles. Anyone going to the chemist to have a prescription made up must take his own bottle. There is now to be a ration card for wine. Wine was always plentiful in France. It- is now going to Germany. Collaboration is evidently a splendid thing—for the Germans. Everyone listens to the 8.8. C.”