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Show HIGHLIGHTS . " the week's news BUENOS AIRES: Seven members of the crew of the scuttled German pocket battleship Graf Spee escaped during a leave here from an internment intern-ment camp on Martin Garcia island, is-land, government sources were informed. in-formed. Authorities were reported searching for the men. More than 300 Nazi sailors from the ship have escaped since they were interned in Argentina three years ago. . LONDON: A meatless diet looms for residents of the British Isles once the second front in Europe is in full operation, according to Food Minister Min-ister Lord Woolton. Warning that there would not be sufficient meat to fill even minimum ration needs once the Allied armies come to grips with the enemy on the continent, Woolton said people could maintain main-tain their health by eating more potatoes and other vegetables. A campaign already under way to make potatoes more popular with the British, he said, was showing success. BERNE: Germany which meted out aerial punishment to Britain three years ago has learned what a bitter experience it is to be on the receiving end of Allied bombings. A statement quoted here from the Strasbourger Nachrichten says: "We must admit the war has taken a turn we had not foreseen.' Sad, too, is the fact that we have no means of preventing air raids." WASHINGTON: Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson told the house military affairs committee that the current struggle against the Axis in North Africa is merely "a preliminary skirmish when viewed in its setting in the entire war scene." Germany and Nazi-held Europe Eu-rope and the rich possessions seized by the Japs are "the chief battle ground and those battles have not yet been fought," he declared. Predicting Pre-dicting that the struggle will be bitterly bit-terly fought out, Patterson said he believed "the means of victory are in our hands." |