BOMB UNEMPLOYMENT
400,000 WORKERS DISPLACED IN GERMANY MORE DETAILS. OF HAVOC IN HAMBURG. CASUALTIES AND DAMAGE. (By Telegranh—Press Association—Copyrighti LONDON, August 6. Swedish correspondents say Hamburg is still without water, gas. light and food. The “Afton Bladet” declares that the city is uninhabitable. The "Afton Tidningen” says approximately 188,000 Hamburg workers are unemployed as a result of bombing. The paper adds that some idea of the extent of the unemployment in Germany caused by bombing can be gained from the plans worked out for the transfer of German industrial workers to agriculture. Bombings throughout Germany have thrown 400,000 out of work.
The Hamburg police give the following casualties: —17,290 dead; 28,456 injued; 7,290 missing; 372,000 homeless. They report 214 industrial buildings and 14,608 houses destroyed; 321 industrial buildings and 21.379 houses damaged.
The Berlin radio announced that Marshal Goering had arrived in Berlin from Hitler's headquarters, and proceeded to Hamburg, where he inspected air raid damage and discussed remedial measures with Gauleiter Kaufmann.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 August 1943, Page 3
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