English Translation

60-1 G E O P R E S S No. 344 (40/83) NON_VOR_24.DECEMBER December 1940 THE WORLD IN WAFFS(Christmas 194O).The second Christmas since the outbreak of the war finds all five continents involved in wars. Although xixk has found an end to the three wars that darkened the previous year's Christmas, the Finnish-Soviet one, for which, however, the conflict of weapons spread to Western and Southern Europe, as well as to Africa, and also the Chinese-Japanese war rages unabatedly further in the Far East.A comparison of the spheres of power of the warrings results according to calculations by GEÖPRESS the following picture (the uninhabited Antarctic continent is not taken into account). I.CRIEG BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND ITS CONSIDENCES AND THE AXES OF GERMANY-ITALY OTHERS. a.) Great Britain and its allies. Area in population n d 00 qkm in 1000 Great Britain with colonies and India (excluding Channel Islands and British Somaliland) 15,429 507,050 Canada 9.569 11,255 Australia with colonies 8.174 7,881 New Zealand with colonies 272 1,695 South African Union with colony 2.057 10,363 Belgian Congo 2.411 14,113 Dutch East and West India 2.061 68,675 French Colcnia under General de Gaulle (Fr. Aequat.Africa, Kamerum, Fri.India, Fr.Oceania, New Caledonia) 2,933 6,509 Greece 130 7,108 Egypt (under Brit. 994 16.380 Iraq 11 11 11 " 302 3700 Faeroeers İnseln (Danish)under British occupation 1 26 Iceland 11 15 "1 103 118 Southern Albania, under Greek occupation 7 292 Grcssbritain and its allies and territories militarily controlled by them 44,443 655.165 b.) Germany and Italy. Germany (with Bohemian-Mähren u.G-ü:aor.) 825 106.946 Slovakia (German State of Protection) 38 2,691 Italy with Albania and colonies (excluding Southern Albania) 3.819 57.371 Belgium(lessed from Germany) 30 8,386 Luxembourg 11 11 11 3 301 Netherlands" 17 11 33 8,727 North and West France(not occupied by Germany) 250 26,000 Channel Islands (British) 11 11 If 0.2 93 Denmark(excluding Faeroeer and Greenland) "1 11 43 3,793 Norway(chne Spitzbergen) 11 11,323 2,921 South-East French border area(occupied by Italy) 1 25 British Somaliland 11 11 31 176 350 Germany. Italy and areas controlled by them 5.541 217,604 c.)France_(in ceasefire with German-Tand and Italy). Unoccupied area with Monaco and colonies (excluding areas under de Gaulle) 9,468 80.366