WAR EMERGENCY

Evening Star, Issue 22247, 27 January 1936, Page 8

WAR EMERGENCY

AGRICULTURE IH GERMANY SPECIAL ORGANISATION Pre« Association—By Telegraph -Copyright BERLIN, January 25. Herr Darre, the Nazi Minister for Agriculture, frankly admits in an interview with the newspaper ‘ Nachtausgahe ’ that he is organising German agriculture for the emergency of war. “ Germany lost the world war because she had insufficient food supplies, yet in 1914 Germany had a larger productive agricultural area than to-day,” he said. “My task, therefore, was to secure Germany’s food supplies, despite the loss of important territories, and I have succeeded in extraordinary time. We have done our utmost to make a repetition of the 1918 catastrophe impossible.” Herr Darre did not think Germany should live in an entirely autocratic manner, but the German national policy demanded a united agricultural organisation for the coming of the danger. " AH ACCOMPLISHED FACT " READINESS OF ARMY BERLIN, January 25. “We are only playing an overture like one of Wagner’s, with many leading motives,” declared Dr Goebbels in the presence of 10,000 people at Halle, Rhineland. “We could have told our story of the army in 1933, but, had we done so, other armies would probably have marched in. One informs the world only when there is an accomplished fact and when cannons are behind it. In company with certain neighbours, we think of the proverb, ‘ Double sewn is stronger.’ We do not want to be a second Abyssinia and have civilisation brought to us with aeroplanes and bombs. If we want the army by a certain date we need not think the people will shrink from a food shortage. The army is not for war, but for peace, and to see that the worker works for peace.” AMBITIOUS PROGRAMME GROWTH OF THE NAVY LONDON, January 24. The ‘ Daily Telegraph’s ’ naval correspondent learns that Germany will shortly lay down two new battleships or at least 26,000 tons, with nine heavy guns apiece, aircraft and an aircraft carrier of 20,000 ions, additional to the 112,000 tons of warships now being constructed. Germany will launch during the next six months two 26,000ton battleships, two 10,000-ton armoured cruisers, 16 1,625-ton destroyers, 18 260-ton submarines, and 10 600-ton sloops. The naval commander-in-chief is responsible solely to Herr Hitler for the chief naval station at Kiel, the second naval base at Wilhelmshaven, and all the North Sea and Baltic fortifications. The naval personnel is 34,000, and is still growing. The present rate of progress assures Germany of attaining the maximum agreed naval strength—namely, 35 per cent, of Britain’s, by 1942. '