WARRIORS’ DAY
GERMAN EX-SOLDIERS FEALTY TO HITLER (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received this day at 2 p.m.) BERLIN, July 7. With trumpets, drams and martial pomp, the Kaiser’s army was resuscitated when 350,000 assembled at Kills* sel for Warriors Day, organised by Kyfi'hauser, a union of ex-soldiers. r I lie numbers transeendel anything Germany (had seen. Hitler, to whom they swore fealty as Commander-in-Chief, was a corporal when they filled the fighting lines. Sleep was impossible as the whole army under twenty thousand flags marched through Kaissel aU night. Some limped, and others bore empty sleeves, but all marched triumphantly on to the review ground. General Reinhagst welcomed the An-glo-German pact, and affirmed the value of a rapprochment of front-line fighters of all nations. Re reiterated bis belief in Hitler amid thunderous shouts of “,Heil”.
The March past lasted four hours. General DoUrnnn conveyed Hitler’s greetings.
Wreaths w T ere placed on the graves of Russian and British wav prisoners. Yon Epip testified to the bravery of those who crossed swords with the Germans. French and British ex-soldiers’ unions wrote hoping that there would be a common basis for future friendships.. .
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Hokitika Guardian, 8 July 1935, Page 6
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