CHANGES IN NAZI REGIME

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22909, 4 January 1940, Page 7

CHANGES IN NAZI REGIME

REPORTED. PLAN FOE PEACE . MOVE

MESSAGE. TREATED WITH RESERVE

(UNITED PEESS ISSOCIATIOIT —COPTEIGKT.) (Received January 3, 11:55 a.m.) . LONDON, January 2. A plan for an. ingenious reshuffling of the Nazi regime as part of a spring peace move is published v in "Le Petit Parisien," with reserve, from its correspondent in Italy. The plan, like previous ' manoeuvres, aims at leaving Germany in possession of the essential part of her conquests. Herr Hitler would become President (a position similar to that held formerly by Field-Mar-shal von Hindenburg) and Field-

Marshal Goering would be Chancellor. The Gestapo chief (Herr Himmler), the Propaganda Minister (Dr. Goebbels), the Leader of the Labour Front (Dr. Ley), and others would disappear. ' v " • Foreign .-affairs' would be entrusted to a professional diplomat, probably Dr. von Mackensen (now Ambassador to Rome), and Dr. Schacht would be reinstated as Minister fdr Economy. The new administration would renounce self-sufficiency, restore world trade, observe "political distance" from Russia and ~fix the size ■ of Czechoslovakia and Poland by arbitration by a high personage. "Le Petit Parisian" expresses the opinion that German industrialists would welcome ails'-interior solution which would be likely to prevent a slipping towards Bolshevism.

MINERALS FROM . CANADA'

RECORD PRODUCTION LAST YEAR (CRtnsn ofptfiAL wißELsas.) -: RUGBY, January 2. The value of mineral production in Canada in 1939 is estimated at 470,179,000 dollars—an all-time high record representing a 6 per cent, increase over the .preceding year and a 3 per . cent, increase over 1937, when the previous highest total was reached.

New output records are reported for antimony, gold, copper, zinc, nickel, ■ cadmium, crude petroleum, natural gas, gypsum, sulphur, and lime. ' ' • • Several new Rold mines reacned the production stage and the goldproduction field was widened. Iron ore was produced on a commercial scale for the first'time in 16 years at Michipicoten and this was perhaps the most significant 'development of the year "in the Canadian mining dustry. A considerable amount or prospecting and'development work was carried out in those metals and ores which have not as yet been produced to any great extent in Canada but which are important for war purposes. These metals include molybdenum, manganese, - mercury, and. tungsten. It is also reported that ' several new oil-wells were brought into production in Alberta. • It is noteworthy that in the output of refined copper, nickel, lead, and zinc, Canada is now-in abetter position to assist in the successful prosecution of the war than at the outbreak of hostilities in_l9,i£-