MEMORIAL ORATION
HITLER ANI) PEACE
HINDENBURG FUNERAC
■'■' ("Times" Cable.) BERLIN, August' 7.
"Not for a century will it bo need* sary for Germany again to defend he] honour. Never in centuries were soldiers braver than ours/ declared Her* Hitler in his speech over field-Marshal Hindenburg's coffin, the culmination of a solemn pageant unsurpassed in colouij ..or military splendour sineo the vf&f.
As Herr Hitler concluded his speecS with "Our War Lord has entered Val» halla," a salute of 101 guns began, Field-Marshal Hindenburg'a, body was carried on the shoulders of ten soldiers, flanked by admirals and generals, a»4 borne into the Hindenbttrg' Tower oa the Tanneuberg battlefield, sentries presenting arms as it vanished into the dark entrance. .■'■'.
Probably since tho death of'Qiiccni. Victoria no head of a State has been paid a greater tribute of honour aiul gratitude. . ■ ■ 9. •.■ ■'
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 34, 9 August 1934, Page 13
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