REICHSWEHR REVIEW

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 27 September 1928, Page 9

REICHSWEHR REVIEW

GERMAN MINISTER’S SPEECH DISARMAMENT SIDELIGHT. NATION’S MILITARY ‘SOUL. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) (Australian Press Association—United Service.) Received 1.40 p.m. to-day. BERLIN, :Sept. 26. Forty thousand people lined the read between -Gorlitz and Uennersdorf and enthusiastically cheered the march past w’hich ended the 'Reichswehr autumn manoeuvres. President Hindenburg, in a field marshal’s uniform, and surrounded by resplendent officers and foreign a'tatches, reviewed the troops. Von Goenen, Minister of the Rei'chswehr, addressed the troops and said: •‘lt is our duty to awaken the public’s pride and affection for the Reichswehr and to reinforce the military soul of the country, which is,regretting the poverty of the weapons permitted to be “used 'by 'the Reichswehr by the Treaty of Versailles.” He declared that the suggestion that it was the most modern anny in the world was the only political excuse / used !by their enemies to cloak their evasion o:f their obligations to disarm. Germany’s duty was to carry on unceasingly the fight for equality in the matter of armaments. ’ ’■

The “'Morning Post’s” Berlin correspondent describes the review and speech as an_ illuminating sidelight to the disarmament debate at Geneva.