RULE IN GERMANY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21883, 20 August 1934, Page 9

RULE IN GERMANY

HITLER'S POSITION PLEBISCITE TO DECIDE EVE OF THE POLL RALLYING THE VOTEHS ADDRESS BY DICTATOR By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received August 19, fi.35 p.m.) BERLIN. August 18 Preparations have been completed for the plebiscite to be held throughout Germany to-morrow qn the following question: " Do you support the law which makes Hitler Leader-Chan-cellor of the Reich." Hundreds of low-flying aeroplanes carrying swastika flags will drum the voters to the poll all day. An average forecast of the voting is SO to 90 per cent in favour of Herr Hitler. Colonel Oskar von Hindenburg, son of the late President, in a broadcast speech to-day, said: "I am acting as my father would have wished me to when I call on the people to invest Herr,Hitler as Reich President." Herr Hitler arrived at Hamburg yesterday by air. A salute of 21 guns was fired from a battleship. Church bells pealed and cheering crowds lined tho routo to the City Hall, where Herr Hitler spoke. Herr Hitler explained that he had combined the offices of President and Chancellor because the "irreconcilable" section of the community had hoped President Hindenburg's death would leave the Reich without a leader and offer opportunities to confuse the public and increase international uncertainty. Otherwise he would have appealed to the people first and would have carried out their decision, which would have

been the same. " I am determined to root out the irreconcilable parties and unite the people," said Herr Hitler. " Time will be needed, but the eventual success of my struggle will be known in the future as the turning point in the history of Germany." IJerr Hitler reiterated his desire for equality, security and world peace, and added: "The German revolution has been completed and I will honestly protect the rights of the two great Christian religions."

WIDE BROADCAST EUROPE AND AMERICA THE " HEIL HITLER" DECREE LONDON, August' 17 Mr. Ward Price, in a telegram from Berlin to the Daily Mail, says the frantic cheering of 1,000,000 people massed in the centre of Hamburg heralded the speech of Herr Hitler, which was heard by means of wireless over Europe and America —the largest audience of any political pronouncement. A woman Ministerial secretary was denounced because she said, " Good morning," instead of " Heil Hitler," which the Government has decreed is to be the sole form of greeting.