Reichstag Burns

In Berlin tonight, the Reichstag building burned. It appears to be a case of arson. A Dutch man by the name of Marinus van der Lubbe as found without a shirt in the building. it is believed that the man has recently arrived in the country to carry out this arson attack for the Communist Party.

Berlin firefighters were alerted to the fire at 2200 hours, Berlin time. Within an hour the building was gutted but the fire was extinguished.

New Chancellor of Germany

A new Chancellor is leading Germany. Adolf Hitler, leader of the National Socialist Party has ascended to this position in the German Government. He was appointed today by President Hindenberg on January 30th.

He spoke to the Reichstag upon his appointment on February 1st. In it he outlined his goals for Germany.

He stated that Germany will use two four-year-plans. Farmers would be aided. Measures would undertaken to ease unemployment.

He also went on to state

May the good will of all others assist in the fulfillment of this our earnest wish for the welfare of Europe and of the whole world.

Great as is our love for our Army as the bearer of our arms and the symbol of our great past, we should be happy if the world, by reducing its armaments, would see to it that we need never increase our own.

If, however, Germany is to experience this political and economic revival and conscientiously fulfill her duties toward the other nations, one decisive step is absolutely necessary first: the overcoming of the destroying menace of communism in Germany. We of this Government feel responsible for the restoration of orderly life in the nation and for the final elimination of class madness and class struggle. We recognize no classes, we see only the German people, millions of peasants, bourgeois, and workers who will either overcome together the difficulties of these times or be overcome by them. We are firmly resolved and we have taken our oath. Since the present Reichstag is incapable of lending support to this work, we ask the German people whom we represent to perform the task themselves.

With the worldwide economic situation, this may be fruitful for Germany and its hard economic times.