CAMPAIGN IN GERMANY
TWENTY-YEAR PROGRAMME
CONSCRIPT LABOUR
United rress Association—By Electric Tclocraph—Copyricht. (Received December 19, noon.) BERLIN, December iS. , For the purpose of providing all the food Germany needs the Ministry of Labour is prepared for a twenty-year "back to the land campaign, in. which the existing voluntary labour army of 246,000 will be supplanted by a conscripted body of half a million, which will increase the value of agricultural produce by £100,000,000 a year.
The existing volunteers arc expected by 1935 to complete a hundred new villages and five thousand new homesteads in the hitherto barren areas of East Prisia, Hanover, Pomerania, and Silesia. ' . '
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 147, 19 December 1933, Page 11
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105CAMPAIGN IN GERMANY Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 147, 19 December 1933, Page 11
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