DWINDLING RANKS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22204, 6 March 1934, Page 9

DWINDLING RANKS

GERMAN UNEMPLOYED GOVERNMENT’S CAMPAIGN (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) BERLIN, March 4. Dr Goebbels, at the opening of the Leipzig Fair, declared that the unemployed had decreased by 2,250,000 to 3,250,000 during Herr Hitler’s regime, and should be reduced a further 2,000,000 by the Government’s second great campaign beginning on March 21. Bankruptcies had decreased 46 per cent., the production of goods was 12 per cent, higher, the turnover of the machinery factories was £10,000,000 greater, and the output of textiles and motor cars showed an increase. -Forty thousand more houses were built than in 1932. “ENEMIES OF THE STATE.” PROPERTY CONFISCATED, t BERLIN, March 4. The secret police announce wholesale confiscations of the . property of Communists and other “enemies of the State,” The confiscations include wireless sets, gramophones, bicycles, motor cars, furniture, real estate, printing machines, and moneys ranging from 5s to fortunes. Among the sufferers is Baron Hirschfield, whose museum and library on sexual science were confiscated, •