Berlin, Sept. 9.
FOUR-YEAR plan, after which Germany m entirely independent of other ce ntries for all raw terials which he produced by G rman chemists, mines factories was announced by the Reichsfuehrer, Herr Adolf Hitler, in a proclamation read by Regional Leader for Munich, Herr Wagner, at the 8th Nazi Party Congress here to-day, "We do not fear a Bolshevik invasion," the proclamation stated, "because we are determined to make Germany strong enough to ward off any attack from outside with the utmost—with brutal— determination."
The Congress was opened this morning by Herr Hitler amid prolonged cheers from the 30,000 persons assembled the Luitpold Hall, where the convention is being held. Important French guests, including the ex-Premier, Pierre Laval, had been invited—a sign, it is believed, of deters mination to put the Hitler regime in a more favourable light in France and Britain, After Herr Hitler had declared the Congress open, Herr Rudolf Hess, the Fuehrer's Deputy, deli ivered a speech in which he dwelt on the events in Spain, where, he said, Bolshevism has been revealed in all its beastly nakedness.
The Fihrer's proclamation was rend after Herr Hess had completed his address. Reviewing with pride the past four years, it stated that German ports no longer resembled graveyards; German factories" had 5 quadrupled their staffs, Krupps were again resounding with activity, and everybody was working for the common weal instead of private prof, All this had been achieved without single Jew in the cultural leader ship of the nation, Unrest fills the world," said the proclamation. "With the exception tone Great Power, we see coun: vies filled with Bolshevik ferment.
"Hew easy il is for other governments to solve their economic prob-ornis since they all have the necessary colonial raw material at their disposal, "It a' British politician says. that Germany does not need colonies and can buy raw materials abroad, it is just much as intelligent as the remark of the Bourbon Princess who {old people demanding bread: "Why don't you eat cake?"
"AMI this would not trouble us if Germany had not lost her colon 1L was impossible' at. the present time, the proclamation declared, to raise wages, ax such a stop would lead to devaltiation of the currency,
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