GERMAN VISIT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 224, 22 September 1938, Page 11

GERMAN VISIT.

CHAMBERLAIN PLANS,

Godesberg Prepares Warm

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LOXDOX, September 21

Mr. Chamberlain will fly to Godesberg at 10 a.m. to-morrow. Cabinet concluded its session at 5.05 p.m. after two hours.

A Cologne message states that employees of factories and offices in Cologne will be given a holiday and instructed to line the route and cheer Mr. Chamberlain.

At Godesberg, on the Khine, where Herr Hitler and Mr. Chamberlain will meet on Thursday, a Union Jack was hoisted at one end and a swastika at the other over the Petersberg Hotel, on the hills above Koenigswinter, where Mr. Chamberlain will stay. Herr Hitler will stay at Hotel Dresden, in the next village of Niederdollendorf.

Mr. Chamberlain will be accompanied to Godesberg by Sir Horace Wilson and Mr. W. Strang, who went with him on his previous visit, Sir William Malkin, legal adviser to the Foreign Office, and one of his private secretaries, Mr. G. P. Humphrey Davies, says a British oflicial wireless messaas.

The British Airways liner in which Mr. Chamberlain's party will travel to Cologne established a record on Sunday by flying from London to Stockholm in 4 hours 15 minutes. It will be piloted by Commanders E. G. L. Robinson and U. D. King.

Mr. C. R. Attlee and Mr. Arthur Greenwood, Labour leaders, saw Mr. Chamberlain at Downing Street, after which Mr. Chamberlain went to Buckingham Palace.

Earl de la Warr, Lord Privy Seal, left for Paris in a specially chartered 'plane at 6.50 p.m.