GERMAN EMPIRE FOUNDING
THE SIXTIETH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION IN REICHSTAG PROCLAMATION WITNESSES VETERANS OF OTHER WARS By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 10.30 p.m. London, Jan. 15. The sixtieth anniversary of the proclamation of the German Empire on January 18 will be commemorated throughout Germany, states the Berlin correspondent of The Tinies. Patriotic bodies are arranging their own celebrations, but an official ceremony is to be held in the Reichstag and will be attended by two of the surviving witnesses at the proclamation in the great hall at Versailles in 1871 after the Franco-PrUssian war, when the exKaiser’s grandfather was created the first German Emperor.
The witnesses are President Hindenburg, then a young officer of the Prussian Guard, and Herr August Stoof an 86-year-old veteran of the Prussian, Danish and French campaigns. As a Hussar private he was King William's groom at the Battle of Sedan and witnessed his meeting with the defeated French Emperor. Finally as an orderly he watched the proclamation. The only other known survivors are the Bavarian' General von Bomhard and a 90-years-old cuirassier Viermann.
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 January 1931, Page 5
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