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THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 1, 1939.
Supreme Court
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INSIDE GERMANY
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BERLIN'S PLANS FOR AIR
DEFENCE
Berlin, Jan. 20.
The German Government is very busy shaping public opinion in regard to civil air defence, while at the same time preparing to take the offensive in the air.
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All over Berlin there are posters blazoning a slogan which Marshal Goering once coined in a speech: "Every civil air warden has a post of the same responsibility and demanding the same cour- age as that of a soldier at the front.”
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latent mistrust be- tween concervative circles in the Army and Party leaders.
Compared with British air de stir a certain fence preparations, Germany goes ahead very smoothly, still pursuing the policy of making all new build- ings stout enough to be useful as shelters...
There is, for instance, the new Underground station in the Pots damer Platz which stretches fully 200 yards into the Leipziger Platz.
The finishing touches are being put to what will be a vast concrete hall, thickly enough roofed to make it a safe shelter for several thou- sand people. The massive vaults run under roads pavements, lawns alike.
ARMY v. PARTY
The shock troops--who took part in the manoeuvres last autumn. in field grey, with only their black SS collar tabs and the SS on their number plates to distinguish them from the Regular Army-are as- suming more and more the role of the Brigade of Guards in the Ger- man Army.
They bring with them their own extreme. ideology, a certain con- tempt for the conscript system, and their own heavy artillery, so that they form a unit, nearly as strong as two Army corps."
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As far as can be seen, they still remain under the command Heinrich Himmler, whose tenth anniversary as their leader Was widely celebrated in the German Press on January 6, so that a bone of contention would still seem to remain between Party and Army.
OATH CHANGED
At present the trend towards a godless ideology seems to be gain- ing ground against the passive re- sistance of the Army..
For instance, the oath of loyalty to the Head of the State is no lon- ger taken since the beginning of 1939 with a religious service, when recruits are sworn-in.
It is inevitable that such inno- vations together with the intro- duction of heavy tanks and heavy artillery for the shock troops, de- cided upon only a fortnight ago—
ITALIANS MASSED FOR DJIBOUTI ATTACK
Paris, Jan. 19, Eight or ten thousand...... Italian native troops have of late been concentrated along the Diredawa. Djibouti section of the, Addis Ababa-Djibouti" rajlway, M. Jer, ome Tharaud, member of the French Academy, and special cor- respondent of the "Paris-Soir" re- ported to-day: +
„He pointed out that that special section, of the rollway offered the only possible base for attacks against French Somaliland in hoa- tilities because in all other regions, the French frontiers are protected by mountains.—Havas.
Add to this, the severe ban on any celebrations of the ex-Kaiser's birth-day issued by General Keitel and first reported in the News Chroinicle, and you have the in- gredients for a little effervescence.
(At right)—Jean Daladier, the 17 year old son of the French Prime Minister, bas begun his political career. He is the found- er of the Jeunesses de l'Empire Franenis (the Youth of the French Empire), which has held its first big public reunion. The aim of the movement is to foster Colonial feeling in the youth of France. Photo shows Jean-Daladier speak- ing during the mooting............
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