GIGANTIC DRIVE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 69, 22 March 1934, Page 7

GIGANTIC DRIVE.

SECOND YEAR PLAN.

GERMAN UNEMPLOYED

Hitler Allots £77,000,000 to Provide Work. £12,000,000 MARRIAGE LOANS. lUnited P.A.-Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 11 a.m.) MUNICH, March 21. The Minister of Propaganda, Dr. Goebbels, inaugurated the second year of the gigantic drive against unemployment with a speech from a motor lorry on the new i-oad to Austria through the Black Forest.

Herr Hitler and members of the Cabinet were present, and there were thousands of workmen carrying spades. Dr. Goebbels said that 2,700,000 people had been given work last year.

His speech was broadcast to every village where workmen were assembled by order, and all work stopped for an hour and a half, for which the men were not paid. They must make up their wages by overtime.

Herr Hitler announced that he would allot the equivalent of about £77,000,000 to provide work for unemployed. He emphasised the Government's determination to maintain the stability of the mark and mercilessly to thwart any attempt to raise prices for dividend purposes.

Ho intended to secure the marriage of at least 300,000 girls, appropriating £12.000,000 in matrimonial loans. Road building would absorb £40,300,000 of the £77,000,000.

The public works scheme would not be financed by inflation but by the ordinary Budget. Business would be freed of theories, and hampering legislation and Government aid would be extended only to encourage productivity.

There would be no presents to industry. Dishonest, indolent and unintelligent industrialists could perish. Germany desired nothing except to contribute in freedom and peace to the creation of a better world:

Dr. Goebbels, in an address to Nazi leaders, said that the strength of the Nazi movement lay in its obstinacy and its invincible objection to admit that there might be two points of view on any subject.

' Germany now possessed the noblest form of European democracy, under which the people gave a few men the right to command, but reserved the right to criticise tlicir conduct at elections.

BOMB THROWN AT CAR Believed Attempt to Kill General Goering. AUSTRIAN JEW'S ESCAPE. (Received 1.30 p.m.) BERLIN, March 21. Rumours of an attempt to assassinate the Premier of Prussia, General Goering, have arisen in consequence of the throwing of an egg-shaped hand grenade into a taxi-cab in the Unter den Linden occupied by an Austrian Jew, Hcrr David Oliver, owner of a chain of cinemas, including the Berlin Capitol, where the British film "Catherine the Great," starring the German-Jewish actress Elizabeth Bergner, was banned earlier this month.

The chauffeur of the taxi was severely injured by the bomb explosion, but Hcrr Oliver was almost unscratclicd. The car was wrecked.