German Gen. Hans von Seeckt ordered that Berlin cafés, halls and cabarets must admit the city's poor and cold in order to warm themselves, least the Government seize them to be used for that purpose.
Von Seeckt had been an important figure in the Imperial German Army before going on to be a major figure in the Reichswehr. He was in the German parliament from 1930 to 32 as a member of a center right party, but turned towards the hard right thereafter. He was assigned to the German military mission in China in 1933, where he restored the failing relationship with the Nationalist Chinese. His advice lead to the 1934 Nationalist campaign that resulted in the Communist Long March.
Germany suspended payments on its reparations.
New Zealand's laws were extended to Antarctica as Governor General John Jellicoe applied its jurisdiction to the Ross Dependency.
