PARTY SPLIT?

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 16, 20 January 1939, Page 7

PARTY SPLIT?

NAZI LEADERS. Situation In Germany Said To Be Far From Good. WORKERS GOING SLOW. United Press Association.—Copyright, x NEW YORK. January Ift. The Xew \ ork newspapers are heavily featuring: two dispatches from widely-different sources indicating the existence of a crisis in Germany. Mr. William Philip Simms, foreign editor of the Scripps Howard Newspapers, states that, private and frank correspondence from diplomatic. sources in London and Paris reveals that the situation inside Germany is far from good. Field-Marshal Goering, who advised against any policy which might plunjie the country into war, lias incurred the enmity of the Foreign Minister, Heir von Ribbentrop, and the leader of the Sclmtzstaffel, Herr Himmler. Moreover, since the Czech crisis there lias been a 20 per cent reduction in the production of German key industries. Jt is believed there is a deliberate slowdown strike by the workers, who have 110 other means of registering disapproval of a policy which they believe is leading tliem into another unwanted war. Dr. Goehbels, Minister of Propaganda. is said to be out of favour with Herr Hitler, due to his anti-Semitic extremes. The morale of the German people is represented to be noticeably on tl»e wane, although the food supply and other essentials are up to the standard of recent years. The reason for this is said to be the strain to which Herr Hitler's policy is subjecting the German nation. The second dispatch is from Berlin, by Mr. Loins Lochner, a Press correspondent, who says reports of farreaching changes in the Nazi administration, involving Field-Marshal Goering, Dr. Goebbels and others, are current in Berlin, but official sources decline to comment.

WITHOUT FOUNDATION. REPORTS OF* PARTY SPLIT. Independent Cable Service. (Received 11.30 a.m.) BERLIN, Jamt&i'y. lit. The Reich Press chief. Dr. D : etrich, states that the foreign reports of

impending changes in the Cabinet are without foundation.