Vienna, Mar. 27. 'A. VAST and ambitious seventeen-point programme for the reconstruction of Austria and the incorporation of Austri in the German four-year-plan was announced by Field-Marshal Goering, actor of Germany's four-year-plan, in his first public speech here lust night since the Austro-German anschluss. The new programme, as announced by Marshal Goering, provides for:—
Iva fixed ratio between the Austrian schilling andthe German mark 2—The immediate payment of the 60,000,000 marks held by the German clearing system; '3—Immediate removal of all_ cus toms duties between the two countries; 4—Erection of a barracks, snd-an aviation factory Son for German intervention in Aus-ria), Marshal Goering—scathingly denounced the Western Powers. for their "stupidity" in talking violence and oppression with regard to Germany's action in Austria. the contrary, he declared, the union of Austria and Germany had been effected without a single shot being fred, while the squadrons of aero: planes which flew over Vienna dropped "not bombs but messages of Mineral development of Aus-ria, including systematic exploration, '—Boring for petroleum in the Vienna Basin; Development of the chemical Indust 10.—Brection of a cellulose wool factory near Vienna; 5 Rationalization of the timber 12, Prompt construction of motor roads, especially in communication with the German system of roads; 13.~Bullding of two new bridges over the Danube, one in Vienna and the other in Ling; M—Development of railways and the abolition of narrow gauge lines; 15—Evolution of plans for the construction of a canal linking she Rhine and the Danube, via the Main; 1G.—-Construction of a big harbour on the Danube in Vienna; end 17.—Sclentife development of agrleulltire, including the provision of easy credits to farmers, All Germany's labour - protection Jaws, Field-Marshal Goering went fon, would be extended to Austria, which would from now on take her share in the "four year" self-suf eleney plan," while financial assist-ano would' be given by a, loan oF Contribution to help Austria's industrial reconstruction.
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