Significant in this list of savings is their disclosure that tin consumption rose by 1,700 kilos. This is a strange confession to make when Dr, Joseph Goebbels is in the midst of a compaign against iniquities of alleged British tin control, The "Frankfurter Zeitung" is also fuming at Britain's blockade measures and protests that English-American speculation regarding the indirect blockade of Germany are erroneous, and that Belgium and France will certainly have to adjust their claims under the blockade pressure, which will come less easy to them than to the Germans who have had certain training. Then comes this assertion that surely supplies the reason why a special medal has been struck as i ducement to discharge the tricky task of trying to break the blockade: "It is up to the countries concerned to improve their position. Germany neither wishes nor is in a position to relieve them of the responsibility for their own food supply and well. being."—Reuter.
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