NAZI PLEBISCITE CAMPAIGN

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21247, 20 August 1934, Page 11

NAZI PLEBISCITE CAMPAIGN

❖ Hitler Defends Action BIG MAJORITY EXPECTED ( Received August 19. 0.20 p.m. > BERLIN. August. I!;. Hundreds of low-flying aeroplanes, carrying swastika flags, will drum voters to the poll ell day to-morrow, when they are to vote in the plebiscite on Herr Hitlers assumption of the Presidentship. It is generally expected that I rum 00 to 90 per cent, of the votes will be in favour of Hitler. Colonel von Hindenburg. in a broadcast speech, said: "1 am acting as my father would have wished when I call on the people to invest Herr Hitler as Reich's President." Herr Hitler went to Hamburg by air to make a speech in his campaign. A battleship fired a salute oi 21 guns. Church bells pealed aril ; cheering crowds lined his route to > the city hall. In a broadcast speech Herr Hitlei , xplained that, he had combined the; tfices of President and Chancellor eeause an irreconcilable section ol , he people hoped that President von , 1 indenburg's death, by leaving the i j teich without a leader, would oiler j pportunities to confuse the publicj< nd increase international uncci-j : ainty. J 1 Otherwise he would have appealed | < 0 the people first, and carried out j heir decision, which would have : : iroduced th r- same result. ( ! Herr Hit! concluded: "I air. de- ; ' ermined to root mit. parties <md , ;nite the people. Time is needed, but he eventual success oi my struggle t-ill lie known to future generations; s a turning point in German hisorv." Herr Hitler reiterated Germany s !esire for equality. security. and n'irld peace. lie adcted: "The German revolujon has been completed. I will lonestl.v protect the rights <»T the wo great Christian religions. SNTHrSIAS.M IN HAMISIRG LONDON. August IT. ' Mr G. Ward Price, writing in the, 'Daily Mail" says: "The frantic, 'heering of 1.000.000 people massed . n the centre of Hamburg heralded 1 err Hitler's speech, which was ieard in Europe and America by the j argest audience ever to hear any j lolitical pronouncement. : "A woman ministerial secretary ; .ca.s denounced because she \ Good morning.' instead oi 'Heil! j :litler." which the Government j ice reed tiie S"le l'<>rm >.f gn\ Pmc. j i I ARRESTS AT TI.ME OF j ROEIIM AFFAIR \ M\ N V KKI.KASKD | ( KrceivcU August 10. 10.la p.m ) j BERLIN. August KI. ! General Gocring. m his first ofli- j rial announcement, ol details oi j the arrests made at the time of the I execution of Captain Roehm and j other Storm Troop leaders. states j that 1124 were taken into protective j custody tnroughout Germany. Oi j these 1070 have been granted an j amnesty, while officials are investi- j gating 'grave evidence against the | remainder. j