THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1746, sig. 109-4/1501

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-3- 80 British bombers bombed Cologne, Bremen, Lorient, Boulogne and Le Havre. The Germans attacked the south coast and some villages yesterday at night. Some fires broke out in a certain city, some damage was done. The English minister for the economic war Dalton declared in a speech, for which the United States voted: The Brit. In the case of rubber, copper, zinc, etc., and iron alloys, there is a considerable shortage in Germany. If the British Plotte continues to dominate the seas, and especially the eastern Mediterranean, and this will be the case, and if the British will not. Luftwaffe will continue to destroy the German fuel plants and it will do so, and if the enemy will continue fighting at all, then the German situation with regard to oil supply will already be extremely bad in months, not only in years. Some people believed that when not only Norway, but also Holland, Belgium and France were overrun, the blockade had become ineffective. This was a mistake, because the supplies found there have been used up for a long time and Germany will soon be in the same position as six months ago. The conquered areas have no copper mines, no oil wells and no iron alloys. Italy is worse off than Germany and is particularly heavily affected by the blockade. Therefore, the Italians are not in their hearts at the war. We must finally put an end to the economic form of the shortage, we must build a new economic form in abundance. There must be no more shortages and poverty and hunger. We will do our utmost to make the installation of large food reserves possible, so that all peoples, and I say this in particular, including the German and Austrian people, will be aware of the fact that the destruction of Nazism will immediately bring food and freedom and peace to all. - Roosevelt stated yesterday that a bond of £25 million was granted to the true government in China. This is the US's answer to the recognition of the Chinese puppet government Wang in China by Japan. Halifax received the Chinese ambassador in London and advised with him deliveries to China. The US has also granted a loan of £15 million for China's purchases. Hull said: Of course, the US will continue to accept only the government in Tschunking. J y - L London - Night's programme The British Minister for India, Lord Elmery ?, said today: "The ital. Attack on Greece may seem to be a fraud on the axis partner, but it seems to us as a result of the ital . If we succeed in taking advantage of all the advantages, we have won a base from which we can threaten the German flank in an attack on Turkey. From this starting point we will perhaps be 4 -