GERMAN GRAFT

Greymouth Evening Star, 16 August 1933, Page 5

GERMAN GRAFT

25 MAYORS ARRESTED. [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] (Received August 16, 9.30 a.m.) BERLIN, August 15. The Nazis’ drive against “corruption in high places” was intensified with the arrest of twenty-one Mayors, on charges of embezzling public money. Five relatives of Ex-Chancellor Schiedemann have been, released. SHIPPING RESTRICTIONS. LONDON, August 15. The Foreign Office has received a report from the British Embassy at Berlin, regarding the effect of the German restrictions on British shipping. Legal and commercial experts are considering the position immediately. The “Star” says: A combined deputation of British shipowners suggested that the Government should ban German liners at British ports, as a reprisal against the proposed Nazi order, prohibiting the export of German goods, except in German ships. The Nazi discrimination against foreign shipping is part of the anti-Semi-tism aimed at German Jews refusing to travel or send cargoes by German vessels. Retaliatory measures would be disastrous to German shipping, which carries 70 per cent, foreign passengers. AERIAL ATTACK PREPARATIONS. (Recd. August 16, 1 p.m.) BERLIN, August 15. Defence against aerial attack is being prepared with extraordinary thoroughness by the Reich Air Defence League, under the auspices oi the military police and civil authorThe organisation operates throughout the country, affecting every house hold, where Are fighting and first aid team's, under the leadership of a carefully selected house -warden, must be formed and special shelters prepared in cellars. Every house in Berlin has been ordered to remove from attics, material likely to be inflammable. Thus, ten thousand apartment houses, where the large loft affords a communal washing room or store rooms, are subjected to the scrutiny of the police, who are ordering the removal of old bedsteads, and furniture. The inhabitants are uneasy, asking whether there is danger of war. UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF. BERLIN, August 15. Though Nazi leaders continually declare that trade is improving, and unemployment is evaporating, prices on the German Stock Exchanges are sinking steadily, owing to uneasiness about Nazi methods of financing the schemes dealing with unemployment. Plans already approved involve an outlay of £100,000,000. The Government, thus far, has raised £20,000,000 by the only method possible, namely the sale of Treasury bills bearing six per cent. The bills are now quoted between 70 and 80.