GERMAN AIMS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 August 1939, Page 8

GERMAN AIMS

ACCORDING TO GENERAL BRAUCHITSCH GREAT WAR ANNIVERSARY PROCLAMATION. REICH FORCES COMPARED WITH THOSE OF 1914. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received This Dav, 12.30 p.m.) BERLIN. August 2. General Branchitseh (Chief of Staff) in a proclamation on the occasion, of the anniversary of the outbreak of the Great AVar, says: “AVe are in a stronger position than in 1914. because experience has taught us what it means to lie defenceless at the mercy of an enemy full of hatred. The Fuhrer has given us a clear political aim, for which we shall fight. Unity of political and military leadership will ensure that the armed might of eighty millions is thrown into the fight to the last man.” August 2 hitherto has been observed only as the anniversary of the late Marshal von Hindenburg's death. Today a million men in field gray paraded throughout Germany. The Kaiser in 1914 had a standing armyof 700,000, compared with two million called up by the end of August, but of fully trained men only a million, compared with nineteen classes of trained reserves in 1914. totalling 7J millions. The celebrations are accompanied by most secret air manoeuvres, concernI ing which the greatest satisfaction is I expressed. The rationing of petrol is 1 already enforced in Berlin and no one is allowed more than 21 gallons. ITALIAN DISPLAY MUSSOLINI PILOTS HIS OWN BOMBER. ] ANSALDO NAMES BRITAIN AS ENEMY. (Received This Day, 12.30 p.m.) ROME, August 2. The King of Italy and Italian, German and Spanish generals watched the Army manoeuvres, while Signor Mussolini roared overhead, piloting his own bomber. The forces are supposed to be operating against an enemy which has broken through the French frontier. Signor Virginio Gayda says the manoeuvres are necessary owing to manifestly aggressive British and French plans. Signor Ansaldo, in an article in an article in the “Telegrafo,” says the enemy Italy has to prepare to fight is Britain.