HITLER’S ELECTION

Grey River Argus, 20 August 1934, Page 5

HITLER’S ELECTION

AS PRESIDENT Big Majority Expected (Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn.) HAMBURG. August 17. Hitler arrived here by air. A battleship fired a salute of twenty-one guns, church bells pealed and cheering crowds lined the rout to the City hall, from where Herr Hitler broadcast a speech. He explained that he had combined (he offices of President and Chancellor, because an irreconcilable section had hoped that Field Marshal von Hindenburg’s death, leaving the Reich without a leader, would offer opportunities to confuse the public and increase international uncertainty. Otherwise he would first have appealed to the people and carried out their decision, which would have been the same. Herr Hitler reiterated his desire for equality, security and world peace an 1 added that the German revolution had been completed. They would honestly protect, the rights of the two great Christian religions. Herr Hitler concluded: “I am deter mined to root out parties am] unite the people. Time will be needed, but the eventual success of my struggle will be known in the future as the turningpoint in German history.” BERLIN, August IS. Hundreds of low-flying aeroplanes, carrying swastika flags, will drum voters to the poll all day to-morrow. The average forecast of the voting is eighty to ninetv per cent, in favour of Hitler. Colonel Von Hindenburg, broadcasting, said: “I am acting as my father would have wished when T call on the people to invest Herr Hitler as th? Reich’s President. General Goering, in his first official announcement of details of the arrests in connection with the Roehm affair on .Tune 30th. states that 11 24 were taken into protective custody through out Germany, while 1079 had been granted an amnesty. Officials were investigating grave evidence regarding the remainder. LONDON, August 17. Mr. G. Ward Price, writing in the “Daily Mail”, says: “The frantic cheering of a million people massed in the centre of Hamburg heralded the speech of Herr Hitler which was heard in Europe and America, the largest audience to hear any political pronouncement. ’ ’ A woman ministerial secretary was denounced because she said. “Good morning” instead of “Heil Hitler,” which the Government has decreed shall be the sole form of greeting. ROME, August 17.

Dr. Schuschnigg, Austrian Chancellor, will meet Signor Mussolini during the Italian army manoeuvres next week. SAAR VALLEY. “GERMAN FRONT.” (Received August 19 at 6.30 p.m.) SAARBRUCCKEN, August 18. A petition addressed to the League of Nations by the “German Front” in the Saar violently attacks Mr Knox, the President of the Commission, accusing him of a lack of neutrality, and of giving favourable treatment to those in the Saar who were fighting against the German Government. AUSTRIAN NAZIS SENTENCED. VIENNA, August 18. Johann Domes, who led the raid on the radio station at Vienna, was sentenced to death, and executed three hours later. Twelve others involved were sentenced to life imprisonment. At Innsbruck Josef Aberger and Bruno Agen, two Nazis, were sentenced to life imprisonment for smuggling explosives from Germany.