SIGNS OF WEAKNESS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 April 1943, Page 3

SIGNS OF WEAKNESS

IN NAZI HOME FRONT AS RESULT OF ALLIED BOMBING. SHELTER AND HOSPITAL PROBLEMS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) NEW YORK, April 14. The Allied bombings of Germany are threatening complete disorganisation of the home front through the resulting administrative problems, and lack of labour and materials to repair the damage, says the Stockholm correspondent of the “New York Times.” A recent air raid meeting at Essen was presided over by the Minister of Propoganda, Dr. Goebbels, which indicates that high Nazi officials are fearful that the situation will get out of hand. Machinery for dealing with an emergency must be improvised. Because of lack of official foresight, it is proving almost impossible to find competent personnel. Furthermore, the problem of providing shelter for tens of thousands of homeless persons in already overcrowded cities appears, unsolvable. According to a person who has returned from Berlin, about 2500 persons were killed and 7500 injured in three raids. The injured were accommodated in the corridors of Berlin hospitals which were already overflowing with war wounded from the eastern front.