HITLER ACCLAIMED

Southland Times, Issue 21650, 11 March 1932, Page 7

HITLER ACCLAIMED

PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN. (United Press Assn.—By Telegraph—Copyright.! (Rec. 7.5 p.m.) Berlin, March 10. Addressing 70,01)0 by means of transmitters at the Exhibition Hall, Herr Hitler deplored the loss of the pre-war system of government which made Germany the world's greatest nation. After the war the system had destroyed everything. He honoured President Hindenburg as a fieldmarshal, but was now compelled to say: “Worthy old man that you are, get out of my way.” Wild scenes of enthusiasm • followed the speech, tho vast audience singing patriotic war songs of 1914. A STORY OF HITLER HOW HE WON IRON CROSS. “CAPTURED 15 BRITISHERS.” Berlin, March 8. The Nazi newspaper Attack has published a “true story” of how Herr Hitler captured 15 British soldiers and won the Iron Cross. It says that while Hitler was taking a message to battalion headquarters he took refuge in a shell hole where a British officer and fourteen soldiers were sheltering. Hitler covered them with his revolver and made them prisoners. The British allegedly excused themselves by saying that he "surrounded us.” German regimental history does not mention the alleged exploit, but the brigade adjutant on August 17, 1918, acknowledged that Hitler delivered two Americans who were taken prisoners by the Sixteenth Regiment. A war-time comrade declares that Hitler was only ten days in the front lino and that he served throughout the war in a comfortable post at battalion headquarters. Hitler denies this without elucidating the mystery of his war-time achievements.