MILITARY WORKS
BUSY TIDE OF PREPARATIONS IN GERMANY THOUSANDS OF TRADESMEN CONSCRIPTED LABOUR ON FORTIFICATIONS' 1 LONDON, August 2. Reuter’s Berlin correspondent reports that 12,000 workmen, mostly carpenters, excavators, and masons employed on Berlin’s public buildings programmes have been sent to work on the fortifications in Western Germany in the past few days. It is understood that Field-Marshal Goering gave the men no option. Between 50,000 and 60,000 men are reported to have been conscripted from throughout Germany for the same purpose as an indication of approaching military activity, presumably exercises. Farmers near Berlin have been ordered to complete their harvest’before August 15 in order that the military authorities may use their horses.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 August 1938, Page 5
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