HITLER’S PROGRESS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 89, 14 March 1934, Page 7

HITLER’S PROGRESS

INDUSTRIAL NATIONALISATION. TWELVE BUSINESS GROUPS. APPOINTMENT OF LEADERS. (United Press Association-—By Electric Telegraph. —Copyright.) Received March 14, 11.30 a.m. BERLIN, March 13. The Government has created, under an electrical engineer, Herr Philip Kessler, Herr Hitler’s industrial adviser, an organisation controlling twelve trade groups into which industry is being divided. A solicitor, Count Von Der Glotz, is Herr Kessler’s deputy.

Herr Krupp Von Bohlen, president of the German Industrial League, lias been appointed leader of. the mining group, and Herr Blohm, of Blohm and Voss, head of the machinery and electrical industry. An industrialist, Herr Vogler, controls the building and glass industry group. Banking, insurance, transport, chemicals, foodstuffs iron and metal also form groups. All firms belonging to the groups must submit to the group orders under a Court of Honour, regarding legitimate competition.

JUSTICE IN GERMANY

PROTECTIVE CUSTODY SYSTEM

(Times Cables.) LONDON, March 13. The Berlin correspondent of the Times states that General Goering has modified the system of protective custody, restricting the number of officials empowered to order arrests and decreeing that a person must be brought before a judge within 24 hours and liberated within eight days unless remanded, unless General Goering explicitly orders further detention. There will be a similar procedure with political arrests.

ANTI-JEWISH BOYCOTT.

FORTNIGHT’S DURATION

BERLIN, March 13. A fortnight’s anti-Jewish boycott starts on March 23 on the same lines as the inauguration of the anti-Jewish campaign a year ago.