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Division IV Group Radio Strictly confidential! Broadcasting and Helldienet. Only for the personal .82/π40. Use of service! Jn own responsibility Prifnr. to destroy! ( § 353 e RSTGB ) Reports of 17 October 194o. 2.d.d. L o n d o n - Czech. L.48/10.40 Times: Reports from Northern Italy state that trains with German troops travel in a southerly direction through Jtalien. They are said to be on their way to Libya. German staff officers and Austrian troops are already in Libya, where the Austrian troops will be trained for the warfare in the desert. News from Berlin state that the German authorities are very worried about the British air raids on Berlin. lo.ooo children have already been evacuated, mostly to Poland. More lo.ooo children are to be evacuated this week. Thousands of people were already taken after the so-called protectorate. From numerous villages near Prague the Czech inhabitants were already made to make room for the Germans. This is a very unwise measure, which will fall back on Hitler like a boomerang. Arrangements have already been made to accommodate loo.ooo Germans near Olmitz. Madrid: Serano Suner was appointed Spanish Foreign Minister. It is known that his last visit to Jtalien and Germany did not fulfil the hopes of the Axis powers. The German press has already been hinted at not writing about Spain's possible imminent entry into the war. An American rapporteur, Philips, reports in the New York Times that, having not left France, he is in contact with the personalities and events in Vichy. He reports that the Germans are spreading in a vehicle in France, which makes it clear that they will not leave the country until it is swallowed up by the German economic, political and social system, the Germans rob the country completely a s and not only because of what the German war machine needs, but also because of all the other Varen. For example, in the course of 28 days, trains with silk, machinery, food, etc. were continued from Lyon. Evenso ast it in Paris and all other cities. the people were brought in this way to the edge of starvation. The French Jndustrie works either not at all or for Germany. The official organ of the Red Army brings an article in which it is stated that the German Air Force Básher has not yet succeeded in gaining control of the British Air Force. It is said that the British air force is not only not destroyed, on the contrary, its activity is still greatly expanded.