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.12 FLIGHT JULY IST, 1943 Behind the Lines Service and Industrial News from the Inside of Axis and Enemy- occupied Countries MAl Appointed . GEN. PAUL ADRIAN GASTIN has been appointed by the Vichy Government as Secretary-General for Air Defence. Balkan Precautions NEUTRAL sources report that Germanmilitary authorities have enforced rigorous precautions along the railway lines leading to Salonika. A strict black- out has been ordered in Salonika and Athens. Bulgarian Gliding THE activities of German gliding In-structors in Bulgaria were reported previously on this page. It is now learnt that a gioup of Bulgarian glider pilots has left recently for Germany to complete their training in German establishments. The Storch TTIESELER Storch aircraft are reported -»- to be employed in the Ukraine to help with the cultivation work of large areas in the occupied Southern Ukraine. In using this aircraft it is said that Ger- man district agricultural officers can effectively control the work and keep it under constant inspection. Daimler-Benz Changes THE general meeting of shareholders ofthe Daimler-Benz Company on June 8th declared a dividend of 6 per cent, for the current year. Simultaneously, it has been announced that Dr.' Alfred Busch, of Berlin, and Otto Fischer, of Stuttgart, have been replaced as members of the board by Karl Blessing, member of the board of the Contmevtale Oel A.G., and Dr. Otto Fahl, of the Werner and Pfleiderer Co., Stuttgart-Feuerbach. Catch Them Young IN order to secure cadres of skilledworkers, the Junkers works are now- recruiting in Belgium young boys between 14 and 17. The boys are first drafted into the technical school attached to the factor ', and after a period of two years of training have to spend one year in the works. Parents have to provide shoes and liuen only, the rest, including Nazi youth uniforms, are supplied by the firm. The pay for first year of trainees is 5 RM per month, increasing to 7 RM in the second year. Export ON June 17th the Spanish 4th BlueSquadron, composed of fifteen Air Force officers and other ranks, left Madrid for Germany. Their destination is the Russian front, where they are to relieve the 3rd Blue Squadron of Spanish airmen collaborating with the Lufl-wafje. THE CANT Z.1008, a development of the Cant Z. 1007 bis "Alcione," has a span of 81ft. 4in. and a length of 60ft. 6in. Constructed in wood, the aircraft has a loaded weight of 30,0001b. and w:th three Piaggio PXI RC.40 radial engines develops a maximum speed of 265 m.p.h. at 13,000ft. Jap Collection 'TERMINATING a drive for public -*• donations for an aircraft fund, a name-giving ceremony was held on June 17th at Tokyo, when 17 fighter aircraft and 12 barrage balloons were presented to the army authorities. A similar cere- mony also took place on the occasion of a presentation of aircraft purchased from a public collection to the Naval Air Force. Italy Mobilised IT is reported from Rome that a totalof 8,000,000 to 9,000,000 people are likely to be affected by the institution of compulsory war service for all men between 18 and 36 who are not in the armed forces or already engaged on some kind of war work. This also applies to all women between the ages of 18 and 24 not yet employed in war industries. Expansion A FURTHER illustration of the Ger-man policy to develop production in the strategic rear is provided by a reportfrom Poland. It is announced that a new company has been established inKrakov under the name of Krukauer Gummiwerke A.G. According to theentry in the commercial register, the ob- ject of the company is to manufacturedifferent products from rubber, plastics and similar materials. In Posen the local branch of the well-known German company, C. H. Knorr, reports a tenfold increase of its capital,an indication of the extension of the company's activities. Raids and Morale THE effect of R.A.F. attacks onGerman morale can best be gauged by utterances in the German Press. In- creased .emphasis is now placed by the German newspapers on the preservation of morale, and people are constantly admonished to keep their chins up. A Ruhr paper writes: " Our own troubles must not make us faint-hearted. This war will be won by those who have thegreater power of resistance, both at the front and at home. We do not want toexperience another November, 1918." At the same time, there is increasingevidence that the air attacks, coupled with German experiences in Russiaand Africa, are beginning to make people think, doubt and ask questions. " Theattitude of the population of the districts which bear the main burden of air raidsis most exemplary," says a paper, " but that of a certain clique of intel-lectuals is, to put it mildly, doubtful." Rumours and criticisms increase, andone of the popular complaints is that special rations for Party leaders exceedseven times the normal ration. The man in the street, who was assured by his leadersof his immunity, begins to distrust: "They (the intellectuals)—complains "awriter—claimed that 10 per cent, of the armament industry had been destroyedin a raid on Dortmund. This also applies to the catastrophe of the Moehne dam.Twenty and even forty thousand were mentioned as the number of fatalcasualties. It is a deplorable fact that 540 people were killed in Dortmund, butwe can admit it quite frankly, just as we can admit that twice as many werekilled in Wuppertal." The Germans are getting nervousabout future war developments. But for a final reply to their doubts they arereferred to the Fuehrer: " How, when and where the curtain will rise on thewar this summer we do not know." Says another commentator: " It is sense-less to ask such a question, for there is only one person who makes the finaldecision: The Fuehrer, who bears the responsibility. The Fuehrer cares moreabout you than many people believe. Immediately after the raid on Bochumhe telephoned and asked what had hap- pened to the population. That showshow much he thinks about you, and about everybody and everything." A provincial Nazi leader concludes aparty meeting with the lyrical outburst: " Heil, Hitler—thou Saviour in ourNeed; we follow you faithful in battle, until to death we bleed."
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