NAZI FERVOUR

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19121, 16 September 1936, Page 5

NAZI FERVOUR

POWER OF NEW ARMY FOREIGNERS IMPRESSED HITLER’S PINAL CALL VIOLENT TERMS SUBDUED (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) LONDON, Sept. 15.

Reports from Nuremberg state that excitement at the Nazi congress ran wild until late last night.

Thousands, singling, surrounded Herr Hitler’s hotel. The scene recalled that witnessed in the Wilhelmstrassc ill Berlin on the outbreak of the Great AVar.

A solid mass of people sang “Deutschland Über Alles” and such Nazi songs as “Germany is ours to-day; the whole world will be ours to-morrow.”

Ilerr Hitler appeared several times on the balcony.

The military manoeuvres closing the congress left no doubt among the onlookers that the German army is as efficient as in 1914. Foreign attaches were, impressed with the deadly accuracy with which the most modern bombers destroyed a model village. Tile inhabitants,' wearing gas masks, scurried (o the cellars. ■ EQUIPMENT TREBLED Then followed a, demonstration -of (lie latest methods of trench warfare, revealing that Germany has trebled her heavy tanks and other equipment within a year. The display concluded with General Blornberg presenting the army with new colours.

Though Herr Hitler in his final speech attacked Bolshevism in the most violent terms, he did not take his anti-Russian campaign to the expected climax.

The Times says:—“The extremists are now consoling themselves with the reflection that even if Herr Hitler had not plainly declared that Germany would not sit at any conference table with the Soviet delegates, the fact she would not do so ought to be clear enough from bis Nuremberg speeches. It is stated that no received 'go easy' bints not only from his own Foreign Office, but also from certain foreign diplomats who attended the congress.’’