SELF-MADE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 208, 3 September 1934, Page 7

SELF-MADE.

GERMAN TROUBLES. QUESTION OF DEBTS. Trenchant Criticism by Press Of Britain. INTERNAL POLICIES BLAMED. (British Official Wireless.)' (Received 1 p.m.) RUGBY, September" 2. No Ministerial or other official comment has been made on the speech by Dr. Schacht, at Badeilsen, but the British Press reaction to the choice -which Dr. Schacht offers. to nations to lend more money or receive nothing on account of past debts is severe and unfavourable. Before accepting a moratorium, says the "Daily Telegraph," creditors of Germany will require more than the assurance" of Dr. Schacht that capacity to meet the obligations has been exhausted, or that German resources have not been frittered away by her internal policies. "The Times," after noting that the speech, coining so soon after the settlement of the dispute about the Dawes and Young loans, has created a bad impression, draws attention to the increase in the excess of British purchases from Germany over German purchases from Britain during the past few months. So far as British creditors are concerned, it adds, there is even less validity than before in the claim that Germany cannot pay her debts because foreign countries will not buy her goods. Proceeding, the paper says: "Dr. Schacht's version of the position is so one-sided and misleading that it alienates whatever sympathy might otherwise be felt for Germany in difficulties which, very largely, she has created for herself. It would be nearer the truth to say that Germany's economic policy has been deliberately planned to make an export surplus impossible, and thus provide her with a plausible excuse for refusing to pay her debts." FUNDS CURTAILED. FOREIGN PROPAGANDA "CUT." (Received 9.30 a.m.) BERLIN, September 2. On Dr. Schacht's instructions the Reichsbank has notified Dr. Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda, that no further foreign currency will be available for propaganda outside Germany. Up to now £10,000,000 has been spent annually in this way.

PRISONERS RELEASED. FROM PROTECTIVE CUSTODY. (Received 9.30 a.m.) " BERLIN, September 2. The Premier of Prussia, General Goering, has released 742 prisoners from protective custody in concentration camps. In future protective custody will bo applied only in emergencies. Henceforth all prisoners are to be dealt with by the ordinary Courts. NAZI RESCUED. FROM AUSTRIAN HOSPITAL. (Received 2.30 p.m.) SAARBRUCKEN, September 2. Raiders entered the hospital at Sulzbach and carried off Peter Heidemann, a wounded Nazi, and took him to Germany. Heidemann was arrested for throwing tear-gas bonlbs at anti-Nazi demonstrations and was so badly mauled by the mob that he was taken to hospital. The raiders dressed Heidemann and rushed him in a car across the frontier before the local police were 'ready to follow in pursuit.