The Archive · 1938

Labour Conscription In Germany

All Fit Men and Women To Work for State

Berlin, June 24, A universal labour service for all The police discovered the centre of the spy ring in the Hotel Plaza in the centre of this popular summer resort, The two Spaniards arrested are the Marquis de Revalso, apparently the ring leader, and Senor Eugenio Domingues Pareja. The Frenchman is M. Pierre Rottier, born in Barcelona and an industrialist there until the outbreak of the civil men and women of German national-has been instituted by a decree issued by Field Marshal Hermann Goering, as head of the Four-Year Plan, Every fit man and woman must work at a special post allotted them for a limited period, or submit to training for a special profession, war.

These men rented a suite of several rooms in the hotel and transformed them into offices. Here, certain documents carrying secrets of France's national defence and the movements of troops near the Spanish frontier, were discovered. Other papers found were reports on conversations held by M. Georges Bonnet, French Foreign Minister, and the German Ambassador in Paris, Johannes Graf von Welczeck.

The police also found a number of envelopes containing money for spies in the country. These envelopes bore only simple figures, by which the agents were known, "The Special Police and Military! Court have been informed of the spy organization's existence and further inquiries will be made in Bordeaux.

This affair is declared to be con-

The measure is designed to provide labour for tasks regarded as of vital and urgent importance to the State, Drafted men and women, working under special contracts, would earn not less than they had done hitherto, and they would retain the right to return to their previous posts when State employment was completed.

The new decree is described as far-reaching, but, according to an official announcement, it will be somewhat restricted in practice—Reater,

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