BIG PROGRAMME.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 91, 19 April 1939, Page 11

BIG PROGRAMME.

HITLER'S BIRTHDAY.

ur Goose-step Parade As Climax.

FREEDOM OF DANZIG

United Press Association.—Copyright.

(Received 12 noon.) BERLIN, April 18. Herr Hitler's birthday celebrations will begin to-morrow and will culminate with a five-hour goose-stepping parade, during which 'planes will be forbidden to fly over Berlin on penalty of being shot down. Dr. Haclia and representatives of Italy, Spain, Hungary, Bulgaria, Denmark, Rumania, Lithuania, Finland and Latvia will congratulate the Fuehrer. Representatives of Danzig will present him with the freedom of the city. He will thereafter open Berlin's eastwest axis motor road. Reports that Danzig would return to the Reich as a birthday gift to Herr Hitler are pure nonsense, says another message. Danzig will make the Fuehrer an honorary citizen; beyond that nothing will happen. A new decree increases the Reichstag by two members from Memel, one from Bohemia and one- from Moravia,

CARDINAL'S ORDER.

Catholic . Churches In Vienna

Will Celebrate.

PERSECUTION DECREASING.

(Received 10 a.m.)

LONDON, April 18. "The Times" Vienna correspondent says that the persecution o£ Catholics has decreased since the new Pope's election. Cardinal Innitzer ordered the churches to celebrate Herr Hitler's birthday, to ring bells and fly the swastika.

FLEET SAILS.

Forty Warships Leave Ports

For Mediterranean.

DETAILS OF ITINERARY.

(Received 12.30 p.m.)

BERLIN, April 18.

Forty warships sailed at night from Kiel, Emden and Wilhelmshaven. They will meet in the vicinity of Heligoland or the Atlantic.

Warships will call at Cadiz, Algeciras, Malaga, Ceuta and Tangier between April 27. and May 1, and Ferrol, Arosa Bay, Ponte Yedra, Vigo and Lisbon between May 6 and 10.

It is officially, stated that Herr von Papen has been appointed Ambassador to Turkey.

Herr yon Ribbentrop received Dr. Gafencu,'Rumanian Foreign Minister.