GERMAN AGRICULTURE.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13166, 27 January 1936, Page 6

GERMAN AGRICULTURE.

THE 1918 CATASTROPHE,

PREVENTING ITS REPETITION

United Press -^ssn. —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. BERLIN, January 25.

Herr Dane, Nazi Minister of Agriculture. frankly admits, in an interview with the newspaper Naclit Aus.ign.be. that he is organising German agriculture for the emerganev of war. “Germany lost the world war because she bad insufficient food supplies, y<=t in 1914 Germany had a larger productive agricultural area than to-day,” he said.

“My task, therefore, was to secure Germany’s food supplies. Despite the loss of important territories. I have succeeded extraordinarily in the time we have had. We have done our utmost to make a repetition of the 1918 catastrophe impossible. Herr Dane did not think Germany should live entirely v utocratically but the German national policy demanded a united agricultural organisation lor the coming of danger. BERLIN. January 25.

“We are only playing an overture like one of Wagners, with many leading motives,” declared Dr. Goebfcels in the presence ol 10,000 people, at Halle, in the Rhineland. We could have told our story of the army in 1933, but had we done so, other armies would probably have marched in. One Informs the woi Id only when there is the accomplished fact and when there are cannons behind it. “We do not want to be a second Abyssinia and have civilisation brought to us with aeroplanes and bombs. If we want an army by a certain date we need not think the people will shrink from food shortage. The army is not for war but for peace and to see that the worker works for peace.” LONDON, January 24.

The Daily Telegraph’s naval correspondent learns that Germany is shortly laying the keels of two new battleships of a least 26.000 tons displacement and carrying nine heavyguns, and an aircraft carrier of 20.000 tons, in addition to the 112.000 tons of warships now in course c.f construct i on.

Germany is to launch during the next half-year, two, 26,000-ton battleships, two 10,000-ton armoured cruisers, 16 1625-ton destroyers, IS 260- ton submarines, and ten 600-ton sloops.

The naval commancier-in-ellief is; responsible solely to Hitler. The chief naval station is at Kiel. There is a second naval base at \V ilbelm'shaven and ail the North Sea and Baltic coasts carry fortifications. The naval personnel is 34,000 and ;t is still increasing. The present rate of progress assures Germany attaining the maximum agreed naval strength, namely. 35 per cent. of Britain’s strength, by 1912.