Evening Star Newspaper, May 24, 1940, Page 4

Export and Import Cut Approximafely In Half in Denmark Germany Herself May Help Solve Unemployment By the Associated Press. COPENHAGEN, May 24—With her old foreign markets gone, Den- mark is reorienting her foreign economy to fit that of Germany and at the same time drastically re- arranging her home economy to meet the sudden unemployment re- sulting from the Nazi occupation. The Danish export and import business has been cut approximately in half, while certain industries have been curtailed sharply because they lack the raw materials which Eng- land formerly supplied. These have been replaced by Germany to a certain extent, but not sufficiently to keep & number of industries going at their normal, preinvasion rate. ‘The solidity of Denmark’'s agri- cultural economy evidently was af- fected least of all, as Germany proved an eager market for food products. Parliament has introduced a series of important new measures to safe- guard other industries by sharing work and to promote investment by lowering the interest rate and guar- anteeing bank loans, Nazi Labor Office Set Up. That Germany herself may con- tribute to solution of the unemploy- ment problem was indicated by the establishment of a German labor affice in Copenhagen, inviting the Danes to fill long-felt gaps in Ger- many’s labor ranks. The motto which may be put over the new chapter in Danish national life is: “Share the burden and the benefit of the community.” This always has been a guiding principle in Denmark’s policy. Un= der the new conditions, it is not only a guiding principle but a vital ne- cessi ty. On April 9 Denmark was cut off from her markets in Great Britain and France. When Belgium and the Netherlands became theaters of war on May 10, these countries also disappeared as customers for the time being, at least. Exact Figures Not Known. Exact figures for the resulting economic losses are not known but it is estimated that about 50 per cent of Denmark’s total annual im- ports of 1,700,000,000 kroner and a similar share of her exports of 1,600,000,000 kroner depended on these countries. (The Danish krone no longer is listed on foreign exchange. It ‘was valued around 20 cents.) Economic possibilities are limited, although not to a degree cor- responding to these figures. Gers many has been able to take the place of Great Britain as a buyer of Dan- ish agricultural products and a seller of coal, fertilizer and many other goods. Denmark’s principal agricultural problem is to supply feed for her large herds of dairy cattle, her pigs and her poultry. The increased slaughtering necessary because of the shortage of feed that normally came from England has been aggra- vated by damage done to pasture lands by the severe winter. Stocks Running Low. German-Danish commissions are working out a basis of exchange of these products as well as chemicals. Potatoes can not be used for feed this year, since they are needed by the people. Thus it has been possible to keep the Danish agricultural life running at virtually normal speed. Other trades, especially industrial, have been unable to keep up normal em- ployment,. Stocks of several kinds of raw materials are running low and strict economy has been introduced to maintain a skeleton service in vital manufactures. Mounting unemploy- ment in several industrial trades has been the result. In order to prevent an abnormal rise in prices and remedy the effects force. of unemployment, the Danish gov- ernment introduced in Parliament a number of measures which the gov- ernment hoped would apportion the burden and benefit the life of the community in the fairest manner. Previous Policy Canceled. The new laws cancel the previous policy of adjusting wages and salaries four times a year, according to a statistically computed price index. Prices rose when wages were raised, and wages were raised again when prices went up. This infinite spiral now will be stopped. New laws not only regulate wages and salaries but also try to “share the work.” In the industries where the greatest number of workers are employed, they must let their un- employed comrades take their places for a time. Those giving over their jobs will be given certain renumeration from an unemployment fund being cre- ated partly by government con- tribution and partly by a tax pay- able by all job-holders, including clerks. Price Raising Forbidden. A special law will forbid improper price rising and another will limit share holders’ profits to 5 per cent plus two-thirds of the average earn- ings above 5 per cent during the last three years. Finally a credit fund of 100,000,000 kroner—a sort of reconstruction finance corporation—will be estab- lished to counteract possible losses of old or new bank loans. Denmark’s money situation is in- dicated by the fact that the National Bank several days ago lowered the discount rate-from 53 to- 4% per cent. B. & 0. Shopmen Request 30-Hour Week, Vacations By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, May 24—A 30- hour work week instead of the pres- ent 40 hours and vacations with pay are asked in resolutions adopted by the System No. 30 Convention of American Federation of Labor unions of Baltimore & Ohio Rail- road employes. “We want the shorter work week to help in reducing unemployment,” declared H. J. Boyle of Baltimore, who was elected president. “Our request to the management for this will be presented soon. We expect a favorable answer.” Eighty-six delegates representing more than 11,000 of the road’s em- ployes in seven groups—boiler- makers, machinists, blacksmiths, electrical workers, firemen and oilers, carmen and sheet metal workers— attended yesterday’s convention. Boyle, who also is general chair- man of the electrical workers, said all points on the B. & O. lines were represented, including New York, St. Louis, Chicago and Kansas City. A. J. Barnhart of Toledo, Ohio, was re-elected vice president, HERZOG'S ® THE STORE FOR ME 1. WAVES OF BOMBERS dive on allled posi- tions, each with a target selected from aerial photograph, dropping 500-pound explosives. This used to be artillery job. Light bombers fol- low. On return, bombers strafe enemy in hast- ily-built shelters, simulating cavalry’s striking _THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. O, FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1040, Denmark Revamps Economic Setup as Result of |HERE'S HOW NAZIS STRIKE—A New Page for War Books the tank units. Berlin (Continued From First Page.) transports in. the English Channel and scored heavy bomb hits on sev- eral warships, including a large war vessel—‘“probably a cruiser.” Authorized sources found in re- ports of transport movements from England to France a hint that the British, instead of withdrawing from the isolated area, actually were rush- ing reinforcements across the Chan- nel into the threatened zone. A German announcement that Loretto Heights, northwest of Arras, had been captured indicated that a German spearhead was threatening the strongest point of the encircled area, the French industrial city of Lille, 25 miles northeast of Arras. Reach Bank of Lys River. The high command declared heavy attack forces, having broken through on the Scheldt River line, reached the western embankment of the Lys River, indicating that the Lys also had been crossed. This crossing, however, may have been at Ghent, where the Scheldt and Lys join. Authorized sources said German and allied forces were fighting in the streets of historic Ghent, an important communica- tions center, 30 miles northwest of Brussels, fallen Belgian capital. The high command’s daily com- munique did not mention Ghent, but said that Tournai, on the Scheldt, about 35 miles southwest of Ghent, had been taken. “The region of Northern France and Belgium wherein the enemy armres’ are encircled ‘was yesterday further tightened by the successful attacks of German troops on all sides,” said the high command. “In Flanders German divisions broke through the fortified Scheldt position and advanced as far as the western embankment of the Lys.” The French fortress of Maubeuge, which had been passed by the Ger- man sweep across the middle of the Little Maginot Line fronting on Bel- gium, also was taken—the occupa- 2. TANKS ROLL IN when enemy is weakened by air attack. Some fire light cannon, machine guns; others spray flame. Usually they move in formation with 60-ton monsters in center. Ject is to break lines in air-bombed area and screen advance of infantry coming up behind Ob- tion completed yesterday with the capture of the last fortified works. Armored Units Advance. Formidable German armored forces which had been advancing between Arras and the sea to the north were said to be nearing the French Channel ports. “A weak enemy advance from the south toward Amiens (on the flank of the German spearhead to the Channel) was repelled,” said the high command. The Germans asserted that yes- terday’s air losses for the allies on the western front totaled 49 planes—- shot down in flight or destroyed on the ground—against 16 German planes marked down as missing. A toll of 56 allied tanks was an- nounced in one day of fighting ‘Wednesday. Describing the progress made by the army yesterday as “very con- siderable,” they said the Nazi units probably had not touched the coast town of Boulogne, south of Calais, but had passed to the east of it on the northward rush. 25-Mile Gap in Lines. In their attempt to cut off and encircle the allied force in North- ern France and Belgium the Ger- mans in the south have driven a salient through a 25-mile gap in the allied lines. Now they are push- ing northward in the coastal regions to entrap this allied force. In Northern Belgium, they are driving down out of the Antwerp sector toward the Belgian seaport of Ostend, while at the same time pressing forward on a line drawn along the River Scheldt. Thformed sources were extremely hopeful ' that, with the Germans reaching French coastal points, “the encirclement then will be nearly airtight, in which case a destructive battle may occur earlier than was expected.’ The British Royal Air Force, they said contemptuously, conducted an other series of “prestige flights” over the Aachen, Dusseldorf and Munster regions last night. These sources said bombs were FIELDS HOT WEATHER Yalues to s $19.50 15 3. scorched area behind tanks. enemy lines. dropped on non-military targets, but that there were no reports as yet as to possible damage or casu- alties. The American military attache at Berlin, Col. Peyton, and his two as- sistants went to the bombed regions to make a personal investigation of the German assertions of aimless British night raids. Repeated allied reverses in at- tempts to break through the Ger- man ring of encirclement and out of the “cauldron” were described as having weakened allied resistance. ‘The allies were said to have sus- tained particularly heavy losses in an effort to pierce the German lines near Cambrai yesterday. Break-Through Less Likely. The further German advance to- ward Calais was reported to have decreased considerably any chance of a successful allied break-through. With the ring around the allied units getting tighter, it was said, “the real fight against England is coming closer.” But before a major attack on England can be launched, the “cauldron,” or pocket, in North- ern France and Belgium first will have to be occupied completely by German troops. German authorities do not expect to achieve this result without bitter fighting. It was said no comparison could be drawn with the campaign in Poland, because the ring is larger than that around the Poles at Kutno and the allles are poth stronger and better equipped than were the Poles. Germany charged that all the cars of an ambulance unit attached to an armored car formation were destroyed, four men killed and eight injured in an Allied daylight air attack May 14. A broadcast official communique said the ambulance unit was resting by the roadside at Givonne, Franee, when the planes attacked at about INFANTRY DIVISIONS pour into war- They are trans- ported in trucks and armored cars. Purpose is to take over and organize the ground while planes and tanks forge ahead, striking in same pattern as before to widen sides of pocket in 4. SHOCK TROOPS, on motorcycles, pour through the holes in allied lines, dash up and down highways as infantry advances. machine gun fire rakes over area, prevents shattered enemy from reforming forces. Occu- Their pying forces are protected by fighter planes. LONDON. — IMPRISONED. — Capt. Archibald H. M. Ram- say, a Conservative Member of Parliament, whose arrest by direction of the Home Secre- tary was announced by the Speaker of the House of Com- mons. Capt. Ramsay, a vet- eran of the‘first World War, was detained in Brixton Pris- on as the government carried out a roundup of persons sus- pected as fifth columnists. Passed by British censor and sent by ¢able from London to New York. —Wide World Radio Photo. 150-yard altitude. The ambulances were said to have been marked plainly with red crosses. R. A. F. Reports Direct Hifs On German Facfories By the Associated Press. WITH THE BRITISH ROYAL AIR FORCE IN FRANCE, May 24. —Direct hits on factories and blast furnaces in Germany were reported last night by Royal Air Force bomber crews back from new raids deep behind the battlelines. Railds were aimed at supply sources and communication lines over which Nazi reserves are mov- ing up to help consolidate posi- tions seized by fast-striking advance units. Most targets were in the Ardennes Mountain section of Southeastern Belgium, through which Germany aimed its first thrusts into France, and in the city of Saarburg, just across the German frontier from occupied Luxembourg. Although visibility was bad, con- siderable damage was reported on important roads and railway junc- tions. Proceeding east over Luxembourg and into Germany, other R. A. F. bombers, dttacking military objec- tives in industrial Saarburg, re- ported scoring direct hits. Pdgeant of Americas Delayed Until Monday ‘The weather intervened today and forced postponement of the Pageant of the Aniericas'from 8 o'clock to- night at the Sylvan Theater on the Moriument Grounds to Monday at the same time and place. 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