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Show Lack of Sleep Greatest Privation Inside Reich LISBON. City dwellers in Germany Ger-many complain more about the lack of sleep than any other privation, a traveler just returned to Portugal from a business trip in' the Reich said recently. Frequent air alarms give the people no chance to relax, he said, adding that they are going in and out of shelters day and night as a result of concentrated Allied bombing bomb-ing attacks and numerous alarms sounded when Allied planes actually bound for some other target area pass nearby. The traveler complained that he got no sleep during a three-day sojourn so-journ in Germany. He said the Germans Ger-mans were dull, tired and apathetic and showed little reaction to the news of the attempted assassination of Hitler, "except perhaps to be still less inclined to talk to strangers or among themselves." He noted that Gestapo guards at railway stations and airports were tripled after the news broke. Declaring that the disorganization of transportation had resulted in a growing food shortage, the traveler said that during a 24-hour stay in . Stuttgart he was unabLe to buy a . meal or even a sandwich or a cup of ersatz coffee. |