Germans Storm Goering's Food Shows For Leipzig World Fair
FOREIGNERS SEE BIG SHAM
Amsterdam, March 7.
FIELD MARSHAL GOERING, Nazi economic.. dicta- tor, trying to hide Germany's shortage of fresh fruits and vegetables from foreigners visiting the Leipzig World Fair, Germany's star trade show, had special consignments sent to the city from all parts of Germany.
But the people of Leipzig gave the show away. A Dutchman home from the fair telephoned from the frontier to me to-night: "The Germans had forgotten that the peo- ple in the city would clamour for oranges and fresh cab- bages, which they had not seen for months.
"The shops were surrounded by people demanding the goods, and I could not get near them.
"I noticed taxicabs everywhere in Leipzig. Knowing how difficult it was to get one during other visits to Germany since the war, I asked driver about it.
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"He said: 'Normally there are 500 in the city. Until last week only 200 were allowed out of the garages. To- day there are 700. Many of the drivers don't even know the way around the place. We are not allowed to drive local people.'
ANGRY SCENES
were made
"Special arrangements for foreign visitors in the trains. But Germans trying to reach the fair often had to stand in corridors for hours and many of them were turned back because there was not enough accom- modation. I saw several angry scenes on platforms and fares had to be re- funded.
"Many houses displayed bills which said: 'We are only continuing this war because England makes us do so,'
SEES NAZI PERIL, CHANGES HIS MIND
"On further consideration of the immediate peril of Nazism as defined in the White Paper, and in the light of recent events, `I now atate my willingness to withdraw my objection," wrote James Stock, of Charlemont- road, East Ham, to the London Conscientious Objectors' Tribunal. His name was removed from the register of conscientious objectors.
DUBLIN PARALYSED AS 2,500 WORKERS STRIKE
CITY IS LEFT
FIREMEN
Dublin, March 4.
Only one fire station in Dublin was manned to-night following the strike of 2,500 of the city's employees, which began at six o'clock. It was the Cen tral Fire Station and had a skeleton staff. The others were closed.
WITHOUT
of £60,000 a year-equivalent to 7d. on the rates, which are already 19s. Od,. and which, in any case, will have to go up to 21s. 6d.
manager, appealed to the public to To-night Mr. P. T. Hernon, the City carry on despite the difficulties.
He asked them to economise in the
use of water-with the plumbing staff
As well as fire fighting, the strike
on strike no burst mains can be re- affects all the city's other essential ser- paired-and wherever possible to put vices--water supply, street cleaning, out their own fires, only calling on the lighting, abattoirs, even rent collect-central station in emergency. ing
If there are no signs of a settlement Eireann troops may take over the fire stations and also ensure water supplies for domestic purposes.
The strikers want an increase of 8s. a week in wages, and have refused an offer of 25. a week.
TO COST £60,000 A YEAR
"The technical pavilion of heavy The authorities are determined to machinery, usually the feature of fight. They say that the strikers' de- the fair, la missing. We were toldmands would mean an increased cost the reason was that it was impos- sible. to expose precious modela to the risk of being bombed by the Bri- tish.
every corner there is a political agent to take you aside and tell you about "Buyers from Holland and the the iniquities of Britain. I heard the Scandinavian countries were fewer same speech from half a dozen dif- this year, but many orders. were book-ferent young men. They must, have ed with agents from the Balkan States, who were there in force.
learned it by heart.”
I understand that orders booked for "Two amusing new textile exhibits the first three days of the fair were were sets of furs made from feathers at least 50 per cent. fewer than last and synthetic stockings which are lu- | year. minous in the dark. Good for the black- Leipzig Fair is one of the oldest in out, but we have not got one in Hol- the world. It was famous 500 years land.
ago. Reason: It bisected two great
.
"The aim of the fair, compared | trade routes across Europe--from the with other years, seemed to be more Baltic to the Black Sea and from the political propaganda than trade. At | North Sea to Rusela,
housewives are urged to burn their As no dustbins will be collected,
refuse themselves.
Tenants of municipal housing.estates are "on their honour" to pay the rent without being pressed. No collectors will call while the strike is on:
Don't be vague
ON THE TRAIN
WE WIN IN AIR-NAZIS
Germany is building more and bet- ter warplanes than France and Britain combined; the Nazis claim.
Allies
They say that, whife the have to buy planes from the U.S., Germany can afford to export them. In fact, Germany has become the leading aircraft exporter of Europe, probably of the world, claims an article in the German High Command maga- zine, "Armed Force."
Describing the present European conflict as a "war of factories," the article emphasises the dominating position of Germany's armament in- dustry as compared with that of Bri- tain and France.
£8,200,000,000 ARMS German industry is said to be strong and efficient as never before.
This, it is started, is best shown by the Fuehrer'a last Reichstag speech, when he announced that he had spent £8,200,000,000 for the re- armament of the German nation within the last six years.
This enormous figure, the article said, is the best proof of the produc- tion capacity of Germany's armament industry.
England, it said, spent £2,300,000,000 on arms and France only £1,400,000,-
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INDO-JAPANESE
COTTON TRADE TALKS.....
New Delhi, Yesterday. The Indian and Japanese trade de- legations to-day continued their dis- cussions.
To-day's talks dealt with the im- port of cotton piece-goods after the expiration of the present trade agree- ment at the end of this month. Reuter
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