AUSTRALIAN MANPOWER

New Zealand Herald, Volume 79, Issue 24369, 3 September 1942, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN MANPOWER

MEETING WAR NEEDS CANBERRA, Sept. In its drive to obtain an additional 219.000 men and women for war purposes the Australian Government is expecting commerce, banking, finance and insurance to vield 58,000 men, states the Minister of War Organisation and Industry, Mr. J. J. Dedman. There will be heavy calls on other industries. Of the 80,000 women required 52.000 will have to come from the ranks of women now unoccupied. The Government will appeal to single women and married women without children. If the voluntary response by women is not sufficient, compulsion is likely, Mr. Dedman says. Twenty thousand men •will come from the retail trade. 10,000 from Government and municipal departments. 10,000 from reorganised essential industries. 5000 from the gold industry and 5000 from the building trades. THYSSEN A CAPTIVE LONDON, Sept. 1 The Gestapo has captured Fritz Thys6en, in France and taken him to a villa near Berlin, where he is under the protection of Goering, says a message from Zurich. This is because of his earlier services to the Nazi party, and the fact that he left certain documents abroad. Fritz Thyssen, the iron and coal magnate. was one of Hitler's early financial backers. In 1989 he said he had spent 62.000,000 marks on the upkeep of the Nazi Party. After a protest against the pact with Russia he and his family fled from Germany. In 1940 lie arrived in Paris, where he was persuaded to write his memoirs. They were published in book form with the title 1 Paid Hitler,"