TROOPS WILL REMAIN

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 149, 19 March 1936, Page 9

TROOPS WILL REMAIN

Goering In Critical Vein SPEECH IN RHINELAND References to France and Russia By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received March IS, 7.45 p.m.) Cologne, March 17. “Our troops are in the Rhineland ami will remain there. We will talk peace with others, but what we do at home does not concern them,” declared General Goering from the balcony of the Town Hall in the culminating speech of a- tour of il |e Rhineland, in which he received a tremendous ovation. The tour started at Assmannsbausen whence the general travelled by steamer to Coblentz, the river banks being lined with people. Thirty thousand waited hours to greet him at Cologne. General Goering to-night spoke at Dortmund, advising European statesmen to make a week-end trip to the Rhineland instead of haggling in London.

General Goering declared: "It is possible to write ‘Germany may not have troops in the Rhineland’.but it means that the whole frontier will be undefended. At the back of it is the unspeakable horror of.murder, fire and death. How many people are behind M. Flandin? Only those support him who incite men to war. Foreigners think that if we are dependent on foreign raw materials they have their hand at our throat but the stronger their pressure the stronger we shall be. Germany cannot be forced down by sanctions. He who wants to attack Germany must pay for every mile of German soil with countless killed. Russians live under the whips of Stalin as they were formerly under the whips of the Tsar. The Bolsheviks are doing their best to see that Herr Hitler’s offer is not accepted. An appeal must be made to common sense.”