STEADY TRAINING

Hokitika Guardian, 21 October 1933, Page 6

STEADY TRAINING

GERMANY’S MILITARY ACTIVITY

PREPARING FDR REARMAMENT

LONDON, October 14

■lncessant training h.,s turned the ■Hitler battalions from ragged columns of enthusiasts into, soldierly units requiring only special arms to complete their training, says the Berlin correspondent- of the “Times.” Moreover, drafting of former .members of the Keichs'veur with 12 years’ service, into Storm Troops, contradicts ;Hdrr Hitler's statement thsu such forces are merely gymnasts, r.ightAvatchmen and firemen.

The correspondent adds that the position is that Germany lw s progressively intensified training in preparation .for realmrament. Although real military danger does not at present exist, nevertheless nothing is move impressive than I,iie general adoption of Professor ißj.nse’s proposals for the impregnation of the minds of Germans lii'om childhood -with military psychology.

■Distorted versions of recent history are algo prevalent. School .children are taught to vieAV neighbours as robbers, which is unlikely to produce peaceloving Gorman.?, -while at the recent Colonial Exhibition children wore told that while Germans had largely eliminated sleeping sickness at Tanganyika, to-day, under the British mandate, the natives are dying in thousands.

Moreover, lads’ Nazi storm-sections are persistently told that they are soldiers, in addresses belauding German victories on land and sea.. Their weeklyorigan details the handling tof machineguns, contains essays on tactics and similar subjects.

THE SANCTITY OF MARRIAGE-

DRASTIC GERMAN PENAL CODE

LONDON, October 14

Flirtations by married men with women is a crime -under the new German penal code, Avhich seeks to protect the sanctity of marriage, motherhood and the family. Words, pictures and writings -belittling marriage are illegal. The -correspondent- of the Manchester Guardian in Berlin says that under the neAV (law an Aryan-Jewish xnqq/riage sh-.1l be dissolved on the petition of the Aryan partner, even if the latter wa s qwa.ro before marriage that the other Avas Jewish';

Under the neAV code, doctors will he .allowed to kill people suffering from certain incurable diseases. Legal sanction will also be- given to duelling to settle affairs of honour, hut, if the duel ends f'tally, the slayer Avill be liable to punishment. Bandits and torturers of animals Avid be flogged, and .the memory of great Germans is to be protected from insult.