FOR REPARATIONS

Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23316, 27 September 1945, Page 6

FOR REPARATIONS

German Industrial Plants (Rec. 7.30 pun.) LONDON. Sept. 26. General Eisenhower announced that five German industrial undertakings have been made available for reparations to the United Nations. They are (1) Grossdraftwerke. Mannheim ' 35.000 kilowatt underground power plant; <2> Deschemag Wesser Shipyard. Bremen, one of the largest in Germany; (3) Kugelfischer Georg Schaffer Company. Schweinfurt, the largest ballbearing plant in Europe; (4) the Baver Sche Motorwerke plant. No. 2. Munich, one of the largest engine plants in Germany: <5» a large underground aeroplane and truck engine parts plant, near Heidelberg. Burgomasters in certain cities have been ordered to arrange the dismantling of the undertakings and make the necessarv preparations for shipment. The ‘ work is beginning immediately under military government sunervision. It has not yet been decided to which nations the plants are being sent. The Allied Control Commission in Berlin has ordered the 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.