GERMANY TO PAY
LOSS OF INDUSTRY FIVE LARGE PLANTS TRANSFER TO ALLIES (Reed. 6.30 p.m.) LONDON. Sept. '2(l General Eisenhower announced that five German industrial undertakings have been made available for reparations to the United Nations.
They arc Grossdraftwork, Mannheim, a 35,000-kilowatt underground power plant; j)eschemag Wesser shipyard, Bremen, one of the largest in Germany; Kugelfischer Georg Schaffer Co.. Schweinfurt, the largest hall-bearing plant in Europe; the Bayerische Motorwerke plant, No. 2, Munich, one of the largest engine plants in Germany; a large underground plant making aeroplane and truck engine parts near Heidelberg. Work Starts Immediately Burgomasters of certain cities have been ordered to prrange for the dismantling of the undertakings and to make the necessary preparations for shipment. The work is beginning immediately under Military Government supervision. It lias not yet been decided to which nations the plants are being sent.
United States headquarters issued a Military Government law, which is effective from tomorrow, forbidding German businesses to employ Nazi Party members except as common labourers.
the Russian occupation authorities announced that they have taken oyer 155,000 acres in Brandenburg for distribution to farmers without land, as part of the agricultural reform being carried out throughout their zone. Lord Mayor Reprimanded
The American occupational authorities reprimanded the Lord Mayor of Berlin, Arthur Werner, and discharged two German officials for opposing the abolition of the "Little Fuehrer" leader system for blocks of streets and houses in the German capital. The authorities ordered Werner to cease forthwith the publication of articles favouring the reestablishment of the leader system and warned him that such conduct was illadvised.
The Allied Control Commission ordered Germans to hand over to the Allies all gold and silver coin or bullion and all platinum bullion in Germany or possessed by any German bank, company or cartel outside Germany, also all foreign notes and coins.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume 82, Issue 25318, 27 September 1945, Page 5
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