Evening star., 1938-09-07
SPADES DEFEND
REICH, SAYS HITLER
Chancellor Speaks to 10000
Conscripts in Pouring
Rain at Nurnberg.
BY the Associated Press.

~ LII hSsoSldfcu
NURNBERG, Germany, Sept. T.
Adolf Hitler told Germany's conscript
labor army today that its spades,
being welded in 'the east, north and
south. but especially in the weston
Frances borders-were playing vital
part in defense of the Reich.
You are fighting for the defense of
The Reich and its independence" he
told 10000 labor conscripts as he stood
in pouring rain.
His speech was the climax of the
annual labor rally at Zeppelin Field,
main event of the third day of the
annual Nazi party congress.
Most of his audience interpreted his
reference to the work of labor bat
talions especially in the west" as a
public admission that they have been
perfecting Germanys fortifications
facing France. Many considered 1t an
indirect reply to Frances calling of
reserves into her Maginot line.
your spade creates new soil besides
securing the DID," the Reichsfuetrer
declared. Your spade = is being
welded for securing and maintaining
the Reich"
Reviews 10000 Conscripts.
Before speaking Hitler stood for 90
minutes to review the march past of
the 10000 youthful labor conscripts.
Bad weather did not prevent 100000
spectators from croWding the grand
stand and bleachers to witness the
spectacle.
From one bleacher hundreds of
voices rang out: I'VE Sudeten Ger
mans greet the Fuehrer of the Ger
mans'-voices from the Germanic
minority in Czechoslovakia over which
Hitler has declared himself protector.
Drenched and drab, their spades
lacking the luster of sunny days, bat
talon after battalion of the labor
army goose-stepped past Hitler's linn
CUISINE.
In these 10000 brawny, tanned,
healthy-looking, the spectators saw
only sample of the hundreds of
thousands of youths, too young for
military conscription, enrolled in the
labor army.
There they receive training which
makes it possible to turn them quickly
into soldiers setting-up exer-
cises, learning to execute military
commands, presenting spades as they
would rifles, becoming accustomed to
life in barracks and tents.
1000 Girls March Past.
After the march past and the
Fuehrers 5-minute speech the labor
battalions reappeared on Zeppelin
Field, one large section stripped to
the waist despite the cold rain. With
them marched 1000 labor camp girls.
Ten brass bands were combined into
one vast band of 1900 instruments
which played the official march of the
labor service, I'VE Garry the Father
land in Our Hearts"
Then followed half an hour OF
INSTRUMENTATION of verses by
individual labor youths with choruses
chanting responses, glorifying Hitler
as the man who awakened sleeping
Germany and to whose service all
labor youths now are devoted.
The recitations especially praised his
creation of greater Germany-through
the annexation of Austria-Without
shedding blood.
Ominously the battalions sang,
Blood is stronger than any enemy
power and whatever wishes to be Ger
man must belong to Germany"
German listeners were heard to NUT
ter, that means the SudetenS." and
this belief was strengthened few min
utes later when this chorus was
chanted:
There is still much misery and our
prayers go to the Almighty to alleviate
this dire need.
God, listen to this prayer; please
let our Fuehrer act"
Hitler to Speak Almost Daily.
Hitler is scheduled to speak almost,
daily-Friday to Nazi political Or
(See LABOR ARMY. PAGE A-3l