MILITARY POMP ON HITLER’S BIRTHDAY

Southland Times, Issue 23180, 22 April 1937, Page 5

MILITARY POMP ON HITLER’S BIRTHDAY

TRAMP OF BOOTS AND RUMBLE OF GUNS BERLIN, April 20. Showing a greatly improved standard of equipment, 14,550 officers and men, 1500 horses, and 950 machines paraded past Herr Hitler in honour of his 48th birthday. Herr Hitler acknowledged from the stands of the Tiergarten the crowd’s cheers with a salute. The tramp of boots, the clatter of hooves, and the rumble of gun wheels was maintained for two hours. Every German town held similar smaller parades. Austrian. Nazis demonstrated in Vienna and the provinces. They painted swastikas on houses belonging to the Jews, resulting in 40 detentions.

FURTHER ANTI-JEWISH ACTIONS

FRIENDLY SOCIETY RAIDED BERLIN, April 20. Jews in Germany are alarmed by the signs of a reopening of the antiSemitic campaign. The police occupied the premises of the Jewish friendly society, Bnai Brith, which has over 600 lodges throughout the world. They confiscated the funds and arrested Dr Haech and 80 others. It is believed to be a reprisal for Jewish hostility against the Nazis expressed abroad, especially in the United States.