FUNERAL ORATION

Northern Advocate, 7 August 1934, Page 5

FUNERAL ORATION

REICHSTAG RITUAL INTERIOR LIKE CATHEDRAL. LEADER-CHANCELLOR’S TRIBUTE. SAVIOUR OF THE FATHERLAND

{United Press Association—3y Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received noon.) BERLIN, August 6. Garishly decorated, the Kroll Opera House was strikingly transformed for Herr Hitler’s funeral oration to President Hindonburg. The interior has been turned, overnight, into a cathedral, hung ' everywhere with crepe, and decorated with evergreens and pure white lilies as the only relief. Before the Government tribune stood a bust of (Marshal von Hindenburg, flanked by two feet candles and laurel trees. Behind it hung a huge Swastika flag. The full .State Orchestra of 100 pieces played Nazi marches as 2000 deputies filed to the places they so infrequently occupy nowadays. Outside, huge crowds thronged all the approaches to the building, on which hung a forost of flags at half-mast. All routes Avere guarded by over 2000 State policemen and General Gocring’s special police, and they stood so closely together that their feet wore actually touching in some places. .Similaily inside the building, police stood about everywhere in passages and entrances. Punctually at noon General Goering declared the sitting of the Reichstag open and deputies rose as the orchestra played Beethoven’s Coriolanus overture, Herr Hitler wore. Nazi uniform, with a black mourning band covering the swastika. He spoke under the stress of groat emotion. Ho described how the late President, from his boyhood, had thrown himself into the fight to defend a Germany encircled by enemies, and had saved the Fatherland from utter destruction. “Ho is not dead; he is with us and remains among us,” declared the LeaderChancellor,