GERMANS COMMEMORATE EMPIRE PROCLAMATION
(United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) LONDON, January 15. The Berlin correspondent of “ The Times” says that the sixtieth anniversary of the proclamation of the German Empire will be commemorated throughnut Germany on January IS. Patriotic Todies are arranging their own celebra tions, but the official ceremony is being held in the Reichstag. The official ceremony will be attended by two of the surviving witnesses who were present at the proclamation in the Great Hall at Versailles in 1871 after the Franco-Prussian War, when the ex-Kaiser’s grandfather was created first German Emperor. They are President von Ilindenburg, then a young officer of the Prussian Guard, and August Stoof, an eighty-six-year-old veteran of the Prussian, Danish and Trench campaigns. As a private of the hussars, he was King William’s groom at the battle of Sedan and witnessed the King’s meeting with the defeated French Emperor. Finallv. as an orderly, he watched the proclamation being made. The only other known survivors are a Bavarian, General von Bomhard, and a ninety-year-old cuirassier, Viermann.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19280, 17 January 1931, Page 1
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