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XA. 3.00%. 52. — page three = was only able to check this trend by extremely drastic measures, including arrests and deportations of persons considered guilty. While this has checked the trend for the time beeing, it is likely to start any time again. A third important news in the seme field is the suddenly developing shortage in 411 of Hungary of Medical supplies and of medicai aid, The shortage of Doctors has risen sharply since the beginning of the year, when the Army started to call up a large number of them. This trend has continued, and thus a genuine shortage onthe civilian sector exists, This is hitting even the hospi-= tails. It is interesting to note that a large number of Doctors called in the service have been shipped ourside of the country, presumably to the USSR. In no case so iar have they been able to communicate with their families, As to the Medical supplies, including anaesthetics, they are being hoarced by the amed services in such lerge quantities, that it can be for nothing but active werfare. Since production of medicines is low and imports nil, the hospitals are deprived of even the most essential medical needs. In Provincial Hosptals of the Tiszinth1l minor operations had to be performed without the use of any anaesthetic, in order to save the rare supplies for the major operations. In the military field, the first endmost important news ig the end of the present wave of cleaning out the ranks of the Armye This campaign was led by General Alexander Nogradi, the first Assistant to Secretary of War Michael Farkas, This was extremely thorough going, and has received full Soviet approval. At present it was ended, the Army being considered reliable in all ranks above those of Captain, Lower ranks could not be so thoroughly purged, Since then the build-up of the forces would have been seriously hamnperede A new urtillery Division is being organized since the Middle of August based on the cities of Papa, Mor and Komarome The newlyerganized Partisan Amy, The Hungarian Federation of Fighters for Freedom, has now reached a weli-trained force of 57.000 in all of the country. The Partisms are fairiy well trained in all methods of underground warfare, and especially in every trick to defeat them. Their primary duty is to protect the homes front in case of Wary with special insistence of protecting fac= tories from inside, *hat is why larger units were organized in such key industries as the Ganz Railroad Car Factory, the Stenderd Electric, Hungarian Steel, Matyis Rakosi ; Ganz Electric, MoAeVeAcGe etce Despite its fine training, the reliability of this force is not very great, even in the estimates of the regime, despite the fact that it is under the direct command of the AVH, A rather ominous news comes to us from several widely divergent areas : along the main highways of Hungary the Soviet 13.
