Geneva, Jan. 6. leads the list of 20 countries in which unemployment decreased during 1933, according to statistics published by the Interional Labour Office here.
The number of unemployed in Germany totalled—3,710,000 in December last as against 5,360,000 in December 1922, Tu Great Britain the number of jobless decreased during the same period from 2,850, 000 to 2,310,000, in Austria from 30,000 to 800,000, in Holland from 161,000 to 153,000, ince from Fi 294,000 to 287,000" in Italy from 1,040,000 to 1,010,000, in Denmark from' 113,000 to. 90,060.
Unemployment was also on the decline in Austalia, the United States of America, Bolvia, Japan, Chile, Esthonia, Finland," Hungary, Iceland, Latvia, Portugal, Ruman'a, Yugoslavia, the Free City' of Danzig jand the Saar Basin, while it in: creased in Norway, Bulgaria, New Zealand, Palestine, Poland, Gzocho ie stage in the religious strife which has racked the whole
Imonthe was marked to-day by the Germany "in, the "past three circulation" to. German." pastors throughout the country of an edict by Dr. Mueller, Primate of all Ger many, forbidding all public dis sion of church policies and exit of, church government.
This isa very severe blow for orthodox Christmas and an implicit success for the so-called German Christians, who demand abolition of the use of the Old Testament, the ferucifix and the doctrine of denoting "the soul of a serf 'The German Christians ha long been aiming by terrorism and me trigues to subordinate religion to the ate, especially to. expel. non-Aryans from the Church, while the ultracextremists, headed' by" Count von Reventlow, have been preaching Worship of Odin, the supreme Go of the Ihentonte tees. "At the same time the Pastors Emergency League, fod by Pastor Niemoeller the stalwart" wartime. submarine mander, been has championing. championing orthodox Christiani motion between Jewish and non-churchmen.—-Reuter.
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