GERMANY TO RETAIN POWER TO STRIKE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 216, 12 September 1935, Page 7

GERMANY TO RETAIN POWER TO STRIKE.

ENEMIES WARNED.

Defenceless Plaything of World no Longer.

NO FIGHT WITH CHRISTIANS

(United P.A.-Electric Telegraph-Copyright)

(Received 11.30 a.m.)

NUREMBERG, September 11

At the opening of the great Nazi congress, Hen , Wagner, Governor of Baden, read Herr Hitler's proclamation, in which he said that Germany was no longer the -world's defenceless plaything. "Our most precious and proudest property is the army.

"We have and shall retain the power that shall strike down every opposition that directly shows itself. "We do not intend to light the Christian religion, but we will not tolerate a continuance of political activities of different confessions under any disguise. Wo shall strengthen the German Reich through the army and make it more and more safe."

Thousands of Brown Shirts cheered themselves hoarse.

Hen- Rudolf Hess, Minister without portfolio, followed with a panegyric of the. new Germany, especially the army. Hβ said: "It is not the army's duty to conquer foreign lands wherever war breaks out.- Moscow lias a hand in such. Germany is determined never to let the victory she has won over Bolshevism be taken from her, and never will we let Jewish agents of a foreign Power regain an influence in German affairs."