KILL LAST FRIEND

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21192, 15 August 1940, Page 3

KILL LAST FRIEND

NAZIS DESTROY DOGS desperate food shortage (Times Air Mail Service) LONDON, July 16 News that all the 3,000,000 dogs in Germany are to be killed because they eat food which may be needed for the masters provides the most significant evidence of the desperate shortage there must be behind the lines. For almost all Germans—even Nazis—are dog-lovers In scarcely any country in the world are dogs more prized and petted than in Germany. In Berlin

J alone there are 250,000. Hitler has j ! often been photographed walking . I “with one of his many dogs.” and j . Goering is well known for iiis love ! of animals. Vivisection was abol- ! | ished by the Nazis when they seized | ! power, though it was later legalised j for surgical research. In the land where freedom has be- j come a jest and each man must fear > his neighbour lest he denounce him ■ to the Gestapo the German’s dog j has become his only friend. To kill j his last companion steals one more | slender source of comfort from the j victims of the Fuehrer—perhaps the ; last. I