There is no likelihood that Germany will raise the output of manufactured goods in Western Poland to any considerable extent. The manu. facturing industries are rather small in size though the steel and spelter industries have, of course, some importance for the Reich. But all these industries are now suffering from lack of raw materials. The textile industry, in addition to this, has lost its most important markets and another serious setback for this industry will be the resettlement of the Jewish population, which is largely engaged in textile manufacture.
Some importance might be attached to the fact that Germany has acquired the labour-power of the Polish war prisoners who are now occupied with useful work in Germany. Germany's estimated pre-war shortage of agricultural labourers is just balanced by the number of Polish prisoners. On the other hand, she has had to establish a' permanent army and police force of some 500,000 men in the occupied territories. It may be supposed that three Polish prisoners are only doing the work of two German workers who enjoy some amount of freedom and under this assumption it appears that the occupation of Western Poland has not brought any net gain of labour-power to the Reich.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.