FUNERAL ORATION

Hokitika Guardian, 7 August 1934, Page 5

FUNERAL ORATION

LATE PRESIDENT GERMAN REICH’S LAST TRIBUTE ; ■ . ... •..:• "{Received this day at.ylQ.s a.*n.) ' BERLlN,.'.August 6. Garishly decorated, th© KroU opera house, was strikinglyytrattsfhrmed tor R:tier's funeral oration.- ; ‘to; the Dtc President von Hindenburg. The interior was turned overnight iuto a cathedral, hung everywhere with crepe, evergreens and pure white lilies p»o----ividing the only orelief. - ; Belor© the Government .tribune stood a bust of Hindenburg„:flankecl by two four feet candles, and laurel trees. Behind it hung a huge swastika flag. The full state orchestra of one hundred pieces played funeral marches, as two thousand deputies filed., to the places 'they W) infrequently occupy nowadays: . .j,. rr • / . Outside hugc..,<sr i owd‘S thronged all the., approaches., to.; the. ,building, over which'Vhung a>. forest of half masted (Bags. ■. . . v =., . . , All Toritcs were : guarded, over two : thousand fi.tiato -|policc ..and • Captain. GoeririgV standing so closely together ■ that their.,, feet were actually touching in some places. . : Sjimilarly,v ; iin s idc l . the /building, pP 1 -. lice 'stood about' everywhere in the passives : andentrances.; ; ij;y Punctually iat noon, Captain Goering dedlared ' the sitting open. The Deputies f.ose and the.-.lCjr'chestra played Beethoven’s “Ooriolanuis”,,,, . overture. Hitler, wearing the ,Nazi .uniform, with a (black, mourning haJl.d covering the speaking under the stress pf grcot emotion, desciTje-fi how von Hindenburg from bis boyhood, ,-jhrew • Jxfon-. B elf into the fight, to deiend i ,;Germ | 3ny, which w’ag encircled -with. enemies. Ho had saved Germany from utter destruction! “He is not dead. He is with us, and remains us.”