Evening star. [volume], February 06, 1942, Page A-17, Image 19

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Goering's Rome Visit
Believed to Concern
War Workers
Germany Needs Laborers
To Take Place of Men
Sent to Russian Front
By PAUL GHALI,
Foreign Correspondent of The Star end
Chicago Dally News.
BERN, Peb. 6.—Whatever else
Reichsmarshal Hermann Goertng
discussed In Rome with his various
distinguished hosts, it Is certain that
the question of obtaining from Ger
many’s Axis partner a solid con
tingent of workers to replace Ger
man ones, now called to the colors
in preparation for the spring offen
sive, was the Reichsmarshal’s pre
dominant topic in his double role
of Der Fuehrer’s right-hand man
and head of the German home front
four-year plan.
Goering’s sudden and mysterious
trip to Italy was announced three
days after his arrival in Rome. Its
actual motive, it is believed, was
the urgency of the German need
to replace recently called up men by
foreign labor If Germany’s war pro
duction is to be maintained at its
present level.
Diplomatic observers consider all
rtports that the talks were of purely
military character as a way of
diverting public attention from the
real facts.
2,000,000 Needed for Army.
According to military experts, a
fresh army of at least 2,000,000 men
must be organized if the spring
offensive against Russia is to be
waged with some success. Hitler’s
plan is countered by the terrific toll
that the Russian Moloch is daily
taking of German forces. A Russian
communique recently announced
that 13 German divisions, kept in
reserve for the spring offensive, were
ordered to the Karkhov front by the
German high command and suffered
the heaviest losses. Actual naming
'of these divisions, together with
other details, seems to vouch for the
authenticity of the communique.
Signs in Germany indicate that
preparations for the spring offensive
are well under way. Germans living
abroad, aged 29 to 45, were ordered
to register at their consulates at the
beginning of February. All sport
competitions have been canceled in
Germany.
Whatever forces this general call
ing up will produce, they will on no
account reach the number of troops
Hitler needs. Thus, Germany has
to draw on her own able-bodied
workers to fill big remaining gaps.
The Berliner Boersen - Zeitung
Tuesday clearly admitted such a
necessity in a government-inspired
article. The writer stressed the
paradoxical fact that it was in the
German interest to renounce foreign
Industries working for the Reich
since imported foreign workers
would “be more productive” under
the German thumb.
Number Not Sufficient.
“Not counting war prisoners, Ger
many employs more than 2,000,000
foreign workers, but that is not
sufficient considering that the Reich
is fighting for the whole continent,”
the writer concludes.
Italy’s part in this is clear enough.
Italy’s workers amount to the high
figure of 5,000,000, according to re
ports by recent visitors to that
kingdom. A good part of them
would be welcome in Germany, added
to the 132,000 already there. The
difficulty arises from the fact that
Italians are not so keen to leave
their homeland for Germany.
It is hoped in Berlin that Reichs
Many Aliens Seized
By F. B. I. in Raids
Near Mare Island
Navy Signal Flags, Maps,
Weapons, Cameras and
Radios Confiscated
By the Associated Press.
VALLEJO, Calif., Peb. 6.—Raids
by Federal agents In areas adjacent
to two big West Coast navy yards
have led to the arrest of nearly two
score Axis aliens, mostly Japanese,
and seizure of Navy signal flags,
maps, weapons, cameras and radios.
The latest raid of 25 F. B. I.
agents, personally ied by Nat Pleper,
head of the San Francisco office,
fell with surprising suddenness last
night on alien establishments in
Vallejo, which is near the Mare
Island Navy Yard.
Wednesday other F. B. I. agents
seized 15 Japanese on Balnbridge
Island which lies strategically near
the navy yard at Bremerton, Wash.
Jap Laundry Raided.
Among the Vallejo places raided
last night was a Japanese laundry
which, police said, had been laun
dering clothes for Mare Island
workers. The F. B. I. agents, In co
operation with local officers, arrest
ed more than a score of aliens, one
a woman. Those seized included
three Germans and one Italian.
The rest were Japanese.
Nine of the group were ordered
held for immigration authorities.
The rest were released.
Vallejo police said that the laun
dry raided has sent its agents for
many years into the navy yard to
pick up clothing.
The agents seized a complete set
of United States Navy signal flags,
weapons, cameras, radios and suit
cases filled with undisclosed con
tents.
“We’re doing this on definite sus
picions of espionage in the area,”
Mr. Pieper emphasized.
Buildings Taken Over.
The raiding agency took over the
city and county buildings as the
arrests increased and the seizures
piled up.
The 15 Japanese men rounded
up Wednesday on Bainbridge Island
in Puget Sound will be brought be
fore an alien hearing board to de
termine if they are to be interned.
Gerald Shucklin, assistant United
States district attorney, said at
Seattle that some of the Japanese
possessed maps showing Puget
Sound, making them illegally-held
material. Most of the Japanese wera
held for possession of dynamite
which they had been using in land
clearing operations. A short-wave
radio set and several firearms were
other seized items.
No Naps for the Japs
MANCHESTER, N. H. 04>).—Navy
recruiters here have added another
link to the war slogans now stretch
ing across the country. Their ver
slon: “No naps for the Japs."
marshal Goering’s smiling popularity
has served to convince, and eventual
ly will force the reluctant Italians
to go. -
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