HITLER HAS DONE GOOD WORK

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 141, 1 July 1937, Page 10

HITLER HAS DONE GOOD WORK

-PreiH Asflociation.)

Germans Quite Conterited Under Nazi Regime SEA GAPTAIN'S VIEWS

(By Telocraph-

AUCKLAND, Last Night. Conditions.in Germany at the present time are quite satisfactory, according to Captain M, Schmitt, of the Hamburg* Amerika Line vessel Gera which arrived in Auckland with a cargo oi drum bitumen, oil, pet: oi and eimilar productp from New Orleans and Gulf of Mexico ports. "We are just taking things quietly," he said. "The people are contented ^.nd are not grumbling. Hitler is a good man and is doing his best for the ganeral welfare of the people. A man who has a penny to spend has to spend it to help on the man who is in need." "Yes," sapplemented Captain Koehler, marino superintendent of the line, "Hitler has done a wonderful lot for Germany. Without him Germany would have been smashed long ago. People critxeised him for re-arming and building up the army, but what was he to do? He could, not have men walking the streets on the dole, and having them trained in the army does not cost much more than the dole. They say foreign people don't trust Hitler. We trust him and if others do not, well — " the captain shrngged — "I can only say I'm sorry." Captain Schmitt said localising control under one head was a factor contributing greatly -to the state of affairs in his country. Before there was considerable industrial strife but those days went with the passing of party politics, he said. There was no need for more than about half a dozen honourable men to run a country. The Gera is more or less pioneering a new route for the company, but tvhether the service will continue is stili indeflnite. The difficulty, explained Captain Schmitt, was coal, there being no coaling stations between Panama and New Zealand. This meant that the bunkers took up too much space. There was any amount of cargo offering and the cry of shippers in the Gulf ports was for space and more space. The Gera brought a quantity of deck cargo as she had more than she could stow below the hatches. The Gera, which is of 5155 tons burden, will proceed via New Zealand ports to Australia, thence to South Africa and back to thc Caribean.