A STONY PATH.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 243, 15 October 1931, Page 7

A STONY PATH.

GERMANY'S PROBLEMS Ominous Words of Chancellor in Fighting Speech. FORCE TO MEET FORCE. (United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright) BERLIN, October 14. The Reichstag was, guarded like a fortress yesterday at the opening of a critical session. The Nazis and the Nationalists * did not attend, but are expected to launch their attack on the Government to-day. The Communists frequently interrupted the proceedings. The Chancellor, Dr. Bruening, in a courageous fighting speech, said Germany must tread a stony path. The prospects of success or failure were about equal. The Government was establishing an economic advisory body, on which the employers and employees would be represented, to assist in drafting a wages and prices policy.

The wages agreement system must be made more elastic in order to enablewages to be adjusted more rapidly to the changing economic - conditions. The Government wag determined to carry on until the moment arrived for international co-operation to prevent the world from sinking into chaos. In ominous words the Chancellor declared that the Ministries of Defence and the Interior had been United as the situation compelled" a concentration of the instruments of force against all tendencies threatening the State. The redemption of Germany's debts was impossible if the world's markets were increasingly closed to her. The President, Marshal Hindenburg, in a letter to Dr. Bruening published last evening announces his readiness to preside over a joint meeting of" the Government and the projected Economic Council. '