NEW GREY ARMY

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 113, 8 November 1935, Page 9

NEW GREY ARMY

GERMAN CONSCRIPTS

"BE AS HARD AS IRON"

ECONOMIC SITUATION GRAVE

Guitcd Piuss Asvjclailou—By liioclrlc TeJ«-

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(Received November 8, 10 a.m.)

BERLIN, November 'i

Thousands of Germany's first postwar conscripts assembled for the sweaiv ing-in ceremony at dawn on the historic Potsdam parade ground, where the Kaiser used to inspect new recruits. ,rhe scene recalled the grim military spectacles of Imperial Germany. The young conscripts, in grey greatcoats and: shrapnel helmets.> resembled a wall of steel through the early morning mists Guns.. boomed a salute as the new Nazj war flag was hoisted. A proclamation by Herr Hitler was read to the recruits, who were exhorted to be as hard as iron, ready to sacrifice their last drop of blood for the Fatherland. While the Nazis ace reviving the military pomp of pre-war days the financial and economic situation is worse. ' ' The heavy depreciation of the. mark is reflected, in unofficial foreign quotations, causing the gravest anxiety, partly due to the new laws excluding Jews from commerce and depriving them of the proceeds of the' sale of businesses. : Consequently, currency smuggling is.increasing, as-Jews otherwise fear the loss of whatever capital they possess. The Reichbank is unable to buy marks offered for sale in foreign centres. The gravity of the.'economic crisis is driven home in the main streets, long butter and other queues recalling the early days of Soviet Russia..