MOBILIZATION ORDERS

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 260, 31 July 1944, Page 5

MOBILIZATION ORDERS

Effect On German Living Standard (•Received July 30, 7.25 p.m.)

NEW YORK, July 29. The new total mobilization will force the Germans to live at an unprecedentedly low level, says the “New York Times” Stockholm correspondent. The orders, issued by Dr. Goebbels, compel all persons hitherto engaged' in war contracts carried out on domestic premises to report immediately to the labour offices, where they will be drafted! to appropriate work. Nearly all stage and picture theatres and nijht clubs have'been closed. Popular bicycle races are prohibited and race meetings and football matches reduced. The slogan is: “All must live now like those bombed out.” An official spokesman told the Berlin Press: “We must be brutal.” Factory employees must work 72 hours a we.ek, and women, between 45 and 60, even mothers of many children, must work. Nothing is being produced for ordinary daily public needs except the barest necessities. The chief of the German news agency (Herr Georg Schroder) stated: that as troops are drafted from barracks to the front, able-bodied! men drawn from industry will move in. Their places will be taken by women from non-essential ocupations. Millions of people will be involved in this switch-over. Army Training Reduced. The training programme for German troops- has been reduced so that new soldiers can quickly fill the gaps in the eastern front. A correspondent says the Germans are apparently slowly realizing that the battle to repulse the Red Army must be fought within Germany’s borders. Giant Messerschmitt 323 transport planes are rushing war material, including even heavy artillery and antitank guns, to the eastern front, according to photographs published in German newspapers. ... ~ The purge of anti-Nazis from the army which began after the attempted assassination, of Hitler eight days ago continues in Germany and the occupied territories. A special concentration camp at Spandau, near Berlin, is filled with German Army officers who have been rounded up by Himmler’s SjS. and Gestapo, says Reuter’s Zurich correspondent. The officers, who range from generals to lieutenants, await trial by S.’S, judges. The 8.8. C. European and home news service gives prominence to a report that the chief organizer of the anti-Hitler plot was Colonel-General Zeitzler. chief of staff of the German Army till his recent retirement on so-called health grounds. The police president of Berlin is reported to be implicated. The 8.8. C. added that information reaching London indicated that an order to the German troops on the Baltic front to stay put brought the revolt to a head.