FORCED LABOUR

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 August 1938, Page 5

FORCED LABOUR

ANTI-NAZI LEAFLETS DISTRIBUTED. MANY WORKERS ARRESTED. BY SECRET POLICE. LONDON, Aug. 15. The Warsaw correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph” says that 500 German workers are reported to have been arrested in German Upper Silesia after a clash with the Gestapo (Nazi secret police), [following the distribution of antiNazi leaflets.! The leaflets denounce the , new fortification activities occufing in that district and the hardships imposed on the local population, peasant and worker alike, by forced labour in warlike conditions. One worker is reported to have been killed. Most of those arrested are already in German concentration camps and prisons on charges of sabotage. HALT IN PUBLICITY. AUTHORITIES APPARENTLY ALARMED. (Recd This Day, 9.5 a.m.) BERLIN, August 15. The newspapers suddenly have stopped mentioning the German military manoeuvres. The authorities appear to have become alarmed over the prominence they are being given in the foreign press. SHARE MARKET WEAK. SHORTAGE OF READY MONEY. (Recd This Day, 9.15 a.m.) BERLIN, August 15. Weakness on the Bourse is renewed and all kinds of shares have declined. The bulk of offerings are from big business concerns, which are short of ready money owing to the growing tightness of the money market.