BRIBE AND THREAT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 October 1943, Page 4

BRIBE AND THREAT

DR. GOEBBELS SPEAKS FOR HITLER GERMAN BREAD RATION INCREASE ALL “BACK-STABBERS” TO BE BEHEADED (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.20 a.m.) LONDON. October 3. The monthly German bread ration has been increased 400 grammes to 960 grammes, which is 100 grammes over the ration in September, 1939. Goebbels, speaking over the Berlin radio, announced this increase, which he described as almost miraculous at the beginning of the fifth year of war. Goebbels said he was speaking for Hitler, who was unable to make his usual harvest thanksgiving speech because he was at headquarters, “making weighty decisions about Germany’s future.”

Goebbels claimed that the harvest had been extremely satisfactory and that Germany was in quite a different position from that she occupied in 1918, when, he said, the shortage of food was one of the main reasons for her collapse. He added: “We are determined to behead anyone back-stabbing the -common cause or betraying our front line soldiers. The British are committing a dangerous error if they believe they have overcome the U-boat danger. The Wehrmacht possesses sufficient defensive power to tie down Russia far from the borders of Germany. The time is coming when the Allies’ success will no longer be commensurate with the numbers of men and material thrown into action. If this improving trend, which is slow but decisive, continues, the future can be faced with great hope.”