News Simaggled over Bordei] Tells of Severe Frivatic:
On German Frontier Nov, 5, Formerly prosperous and rich in industry and agriculture, Bohemia and Moravia today are near famine, As a German protectorate, they have been saddled with the task of supplying the Reich proper with manufactured goods and foodstuffs.
Since the outbreak of war, poverty has descended on once well-to-do Czechoslovaks, while the Jews especially have been stripped of all their possessions, reports smuggled out of the country declared.
Prior to the conflict, those who were on good terms with the German authorities and army. officers could still get along fairly well, Today, all are hard hit by the the extremely severe system of rations. There is little meat and very little bread in the whole of Bohemia and Moravia, for military requisitions have cut a wide swathe in shops, sweeping shelves clean of all but the bare necessities of life for the natives, Sugar is hard to obtain and coal is precious, as is petrol, of which there is a great shortage, Strict measures have been clamped down on farmers in the whole Pro-
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