READY FOR WAR

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 12769, 27 January 1936, Page 5

READY FOR WAR

FRANK ADMISSION BY NAZI MINISTER AGRICULTURE ORGANISED . REPETITION OF 1013 LtfPOSSIBLE (U.P.A. by. Elec. Tel. Copyright). (Received dan. 26. 11 p.m.) BERLIN, Jan. 25Herr Darre, Nazi' Minister of Agriculture, frankly admits in an interview with the- newspaper Nachtausgabe, that he is organising German agriculture for the emergency of war. “Germany lost the ,world war because she ; bad insufficient food supplies 0 , < ho. tsald. “Yet in 1914 Germany had a larger productive- agricultural aroa than to-day, Mv task therefore/ was to secure Germany’s food- supplies, despite the -loss of important territories, and 1 have sue Cceded in extraordinary 1 time. We have done our utmost to make a repetition of the 1913 catastrophe impossible.” Herr Darre on id he did not think Germany should live entirely autocratically, but the German national policy demanded a united agricultural organisation ' for the coining of danger. •■■>

ARMY PLANNED IN 1933 PURPOSELY HIDDEN FROM • * AVORLT) (U.P.A. by Elec. Tel. Copyiight). (Received Jan. 25. 11 p.m.) BERLIN, Jan. 25. ‘.‘We arc only playing an overture, pke one of Wagner’s, with many leading motifs", declared Dr- Goebbels, -Minister of Propaganda, in the presence of 10,000 people at Falle. Rhineland. “AYe could have told ou-r'story -if the army in 1933. but had we done so, other armies would prabaldy have marched in. One informs the world only when there is an accomplished fact, with cannons behind it. -AVe do net want to be a second Abyssinia and hare civilisation brought to us with aeroplanes It we want an army by a certain date, we need not think the people will shrink from a food shortage. The aimy is not for war. hut for peace and to ree that the worker works lor peace.-