RESTORED BY NAZIS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 149, 1 September 1941, Page 7

RESTORED BY NAZIS

PLANTS AND MACHINES

HEAVY INDUSTRY CENTRE German industry is establishing ftsell' in Poland. Wliat was I'ormerly known as the Central Industrial District, a section of south central Poland that had in later years been marked for especial industrial development and was to become the heavy industries centre, is being converted into a German industrial plant, according to word received in New York. Comprising about one-fifth of the Area of Poland, with extensive possibilities of electrical power development. communication by rail and *iver. far from frontier, it is admirably adapted to industrial demands. The project which would have in time revolutionised Poland had only been begun when the Germans invaded the country and took over the Central Industrial Project for their Avar machine. Working- Full! Time The Poles had managed to - work considerable destruction in the great plants either just completed or under way. A German press report shows that it took months for the German engineers to get the factories running., again or to be abi'Je to go on with construction- of those unfinished. Machinery had been carried away, laboratories, stripped, drawings burned. But the Germans immediately began the repair of the factories in this "safe" area, which now are Avorking day and night. While armament production in Poland centres in this region and in Upper Silesia, factories are to be found in other places'. In Warsaw. for instance. After the bombardment and surrender of that city the Germans found that one arms factory appeared to be a total loss. More than a thousand machines laji in the ashes and debris. The Poles declared that nothing could be salvaged but German engineers recovered some 600 of the machines and with these set to work. Now that the factory has been rebuilt and enlarged and is employing 3000 workers. Among the Poles who are at work in these factories, there is reported to be a marked opposition to any activity that serves Germans''. But with the Nazis in complete, police control of- the areas, the Polish workers at present have no° opportunity to strike or protest.