GERMAN REARMAMENT
FRANTICALLY SPEEDED UP ACUTE LABOUR SHORTAGE CAUSED FARM HANDS IMPORTED FROM ABROAD Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright BERLIN, August 5. (Received August 6, at 8 a.m.) In contrast with Germany’s claim for room for expansion, as her territory is insufficient to support her population, is the influx of 120,000 farm hands from abroad. The Berlin correspondent of the ‘ Manchester Guardian ’ points out that the pace of rearmament has been so frantically speeded up that industry generally is suffering from an acute shortage of labour. Several hundred thousand have been withdrawn from civil employment by conscription and labour service measures, and industry has been obliged to fall back on women’s labour. Farmers have been ordered to get in the harvest by August 15 at the latest, presumably because Germany wants to exercise the utmost influence in the negotiations at Prague by the greatest possible display of military power.
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Evening Star, Issue 23029, 6 August 1938, Page 15
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147GERMAN REARMAMENT Evening Star, Issue 23029, 6 August 1938, Page 15
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