PRAYING FOR PEACE

Wairarapa Daily Times, 14 September 1936, Page 5

PRAYING FOR PEACE

EX-SOLDIERS DELEGATIONS FRENCH EMBRACE GERMANS. Press A osoeistion Electric Teleamnh —Corvrigbt (Received Monday, 9.10 a-m.) LOURDES, Sunday. Less than thirty miles from warAvrecked Spain, 150,000 ex-soldiers, including delegations from England, France, Germany, Italy and Canada, are praying for peace. French ex-soldiers assembled in force at the railway platform to greet Germans, and Avarmly embraced their former enemies. • THE GERMAN WISH. (Received Monday, 9.10 a.m.) NUREMBURG, Sunday. Addressing 150,000 Storm Troqpers and 50,000 spectators, Herr Hitler said: “We haA'e only one Avish, to keep the peaee, but Ave Avfll never allow Germany to becoine Bolshevik.” “THE ARMY OF PEACE.” (Received Monday, 9.10 a.m.) MOSCOW, Sunday. At the termination of the manoeuvres at Minsk, General ÜboreAdteh, commander of the troops, speaking at a dinner in honour of the foreign delegation, said: —“Our army is the army of peace for the defence of our country without an aggressive spirit, but in certain countries forces favouring Avar are at Avork, menacing the whole Avorld. We do not want war, but if forced we haA r e a strong army able to defend us and defend the cause of peace.”