NAZI HARVEST FESTIVAL

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21284, 2 October 1934, Page 11

NAZI HARVEST FESTIVAL

| Hitler's Big Claims j HARD WINTER AHEAD j i j iIMiLD it. ■:■??. k ■:•.. ;.,'i...N -r.» l.i.f. 1:111. TKt.EG 'j.ii'U—Lu:vr.tun :.; (Received October 1. 7.5 p.m.) BERLIN. September 30. On the ground that their policy in every way encouraged agriculture, the Nazis turned harvest Sunday from a local to a national celebration. .Herr Hitler addressed 700,000 people at the harvest thanksgiving at Buckeburg, a picturesque alTair staged by Dr. P. J. Goebbels (Minister Cor Propaganda), besides an imposing parade of the regular army, storm troops, and Nazi guards. Peasants from every part of the country were present, wearing traditional costumes. Herr Hitler claimed that various Nazi schemes had found employment for 2,500.000 men. He admitted that the country was faced with a hard winter, while the standard of living was extremely low for thousands of Germans. He claimed special credit for the labour service, which was not a mere palliative but ensured that, every German of every class was given a shovel and compelled to earn a living with the land workers, thus overcoming class differences as military conscription had done in the past. SEE I -SITEK lENCY IN .\r"J(TETrRE MINIS TICK'S STATEMENT LONDON. September 311. "Germany cannot bo .starved out by an enemy in the event of war,'' declared Dr. Walter Darre. Minister for Agriculture, sneaking at a harvest thanksgiving festival at Buck ■- burg, states the Berlin correspondent of the "Manchester Guardian.'' [to added that Germany was iore-'d to import £'250,000.000 worth of foodstuffs in I!)2f:. the bulk of which, due to agrarian activity, was new bchia produced in Germany. Se\ t n hundred Hi >''sa"d peasants assembled fur the festival. The fj.-rlin correspondent of the "News Chronicle" says that Herr Hitler, addresuiu' the festival, foreshadowed the introduction if a forced labour svsU m.

i ONSIDERAKCE INCREASK IN SI l( IDES ('l.'ereived ( ich'ber 1. !1.2U p.m. ; BERLIN. Oetober i. Suicides in Germany m the quarter of 1934 show an mcrca.v ■ it' 7.1 per cent., compared with the .'erresponding period of 11(33, (<r bi.'j towns and 1a.5 for communitieof fewer than ah.003 inhabitan's.

RAITROCHLMLNT WITH ITALY SO[(HIT LONDON. September 20. Tli" Rome correspondent of the ''Daily Mail" says three German emissaries are reported to have <»rrived in Rome 1o prepare the w.i, for a rapprochement with Italy after the estrangement caused h the assassination of Dr. Do'lfuss