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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, AUGUST

GERMANY'S GREAT

LOSS

7, 1934.

SOVIET AIR CHIEFS

THE LATE PRESIDENT

(Special to "Hong Kong Daily Press") (B Telegraph, Copyright, Tate. graphic Meringae Ordinance, 1891. Received, August 8, 7.30 p.m.}

Berlin, August 6,

NATIONAL

Homage To The Late

Field Marshal

NEW LEADER'S ORATION

Hindenburg Is Not Dead"

Striking tributes to the great loss suffered by the nation and his great services to Germany were paid by Chancellor Hitler st the Reichstag gathering where he delivered" an oration to the late Fleid Marshal Hindenburg.-

Elaborate safety precautions were taken by the Belchwear and the ceremony took place without any Incidents.

a greater and greater 'thankful- : ness for the fate that gave our people his fatherly protection. Like a great mythical arch, his life stands over a period between the tumultous days of 1848 and the road to the national uprising in

"I declare that the mourning "for the deceased · Generál, Field | 1833.

Marshal von Hindenburg has open- ed." As a sign of devotion and grief I record that the German Reichstag rise to its feet to mark its solemn commemmoration. I thank you." One minute's com plete silence then following.

Thereupon the Fuehrer, Chancel- lor Adolf Hitler rose to his feet and said:" Colonel and Mrs. Hinden- burg, honoured mourners, repre- sentatives of the German people, Band members of the German Reichstag.

Herr, Reich President, General, Field Marshal von Hindenburg is not dead. He Lives! For inas- much as he died he lived above us in immortality, our people with those great spirits of the past as protector of the German Reich and the German Nation. Transocean Kuo Min.

AT THE REICHSTAG

Berlin, Aug. 6. "Extraordinary precautions to re- strain the populace marked to day's meeting of the Reichstag where Herr Hitler will deliver a

For months past we have been Alled with heavy cares Know-funeral oration to the late late ledge of the illness of this vener- able old man has filled millions of devoted hearts of the people of Germany with anxiety for the life of one who was more to us than the head of a state, for this man who would have soon been 87 years

горез

Field Marshal von Hindenburg.

The crowd will be kept back by stretched between lamp posts and specially erected wooden barriers. while the route will be lined by armed guards standing

of age, was taken by the Almighty, shoulder to shoulder. Nazi Black

was for all of us a symbol of In- destructible, oft ever-renewing life force of our nation

When

the nation laid the highest dignity in his hands, this once was caused to the highest dignity of which it was capable. The title of the German President was inseparable from the honour- able name of the departed! Only now when we address ourselves to the sad task of rendering these last honours do we begin to realise the greatness of this unique life.

If we endeavour to explain the depth of feeling that moves the whole of the German peoples, we recall how again and again while

Guards carried revolvers and dag- gers, while Mounted Police carry- ing sabres are held in reserve.

STRIKING PHRASES

Berlin, Aug. 8.

Striking phrases in Herr Hitler's speech were "Hindenburg has be come the symbolic expression for Indestructible and ever-renewed vitality of our people. The title Reichspresident has become ina.. parable from the name of the dead Field Marshal The great struggle in the world's history is insepara Hindenburg. As the chief of the bly linked with the name ef

German Army he saved the nation from destruction If the 1olitical leadership of our people in those days had been equal to the leade:- ship of the Army, Germany would have been spared the deepest hu- miliation in history ❤

mourning march Cloetterdag Jmer- ...The proceedings closed with the

Ung Reuter.

CATHEDRAL CROWDED Special to the "Hong Kong Daily

Press" (Copyright.)]

Berlin, Aug. 5.

Before a crowd so huge that the

gates to the Berlin Cathedral had to be closed an hour and a half before the beginining of the cere- monies. Reichbishop Mueller pre- The gaudy decorations in the sided over the main evangelical. Kroll Opera House where the services for the dead Pre- is covered with black crepe and Reichstag-meeting-will take place i aldent here on Sunday. The in- terlor of the famous building was evergreen garlands of white les. transformed into an impressive

Herr Hitler passed the week-end in his study at the Chancellery preparing the oration together with the speech he will deliver to-morrow at Tannenberg.

Two thousand people, including the Deputies, will hear Herr Hitler,

gloom by the heavy hangings of black, crepe, while the chair long used by the departed statesman was designated by a simple-laurel

wreath."

Prominent among the crowd which packed every tree square

THE NEW LEADER

MORE BANDIT OUTRAGES

Threat Made After Train Wreck

Harbin, August 6.

Bandits destroyed the track and fusilladed · a 'westward - bound Imlenpo. The locomotive and six freighter 40 miles eastward of

wagons fell over the embankment and were smashed.

One Manchu was wounded and one is missing.

It is reported that the bandits informed the railway authorities that they will not allow breakdown parties to salvage the wreck of the locomotives unless a sum of $7,000 is paid as ransom to each- Reuter.

Thes SPANISH GANGSTERS RAID A BANK

Chase By Police

(Special to "Hong Kong

1804.

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by Telegraph, Copyright, Tele Received, August 6, 1:30p.m.)

Barcelona, Aug. 6. Six Spanish gangsters armed to

Important Visit To France

(Special to "Hong Kong

Daily Pruss").

(By Telegraph, 'Copyright, Tela graphis Messagea Ordinancs, 1894-- Received, August 8, 7:30 p.m.)

Paris, Aug. 6. The Russian Airplane, Squadron Leader and Chief of the Soviet aviation Unschlicht, and chief of the military aviakon department. Chrishpin are due to arrive "here this afternoon on a return visit of the French aviation minister's call at Moscow last year.

The Russian guests will attend a number of entertainments in their honour and avail themselves of the opportunity to inspect French airplane factories, leaving again for home on Saturday.

The French press underlines the significance of the Russian visit, especially at this juncture where the greatest efforts are under way towards linking up France and Russia politically. The press also anticipates material advantages from the visit.-". Transocean Kuo Mit,

HITLER'S ACCESSION TO

POWER

Strange Allegation Of A Secret Understanding

Paris, Aug. 6. the Presidency and that a copy of: A dramatic and avowedly au- the report was sent to Doorn sec thoritative account of the circum-retly. He suggested that a copy stances which prefaced Chancellor of the original text was possen- Htler's accession to the Germansion of an old friend of President Presidency is published in the von Hindenburg, General Olden- "Paris Soir.”

burg-Januschau. "Chancellor Hit- The Prague correspondent ofler, however, declared that he the journal states that Chancellor "knew how to muzzle" the latter." Hitler first decided to beomca Finally, measures were prepared Reichsfuehrer without consulting | tó the Reichswehr chiefs, but ended Germany with the Brown Shirts.

maintain arder throughout. in concluding an "Irritable treaty ready to take action at the slight- alliance" with them.

dest alarm,

Wilhelm

He states that on the night of July 30, Chancellor Hitler presided at a secret meeting, attended, in- ter alla, by General Goering, the Prussian Premler, Dr. Frick, the Minister of Interior, Herr Lutze, and the Storm Troops leader. Het Himmler, at which' it was originally decided to settle the question of the late President von Hindenburg's their own initiative.

REPORT SENT TO DOORN

'successor On

1

ARMY CHIEFS.CONFER Chancellor Hitler, on August 15 received Generals Fritsch, Resche- nau and Blomberg, to whom he ex- plained that only his presence at the helm of the State would pre- vent civil war, but that he was ready to give a written guarantee When assuming command of the Army that he would never take advantage of his position to pre- Judice the Reichswehr,

He also undertook to patayise the Socialist tendencies of the

JEWISH MOSLEM General Goering announced that Nan Party and to take into ac

RIOT

Pistots Brought Into Use

[Special to the "Hong Kong Daily Press" (Copyright.)]

Parla, Aug. 5.

A bloody riot between the Jewish and the Mohammedan inhabitants of the Algerian city, Constantine, gave the police a sleepless night on Sunday, and Alled the hospitals with seriously woundedreligious warriors.

the police reported that Field-Mar-count the Reichswehr's suggestions shal von Hindenburg had made a on matters of internal and foreign report on political testament, re- polity. commending & Hohenzollern for Reuter. P

OMAR KHAYYAM|

Canopy To Be Erected Over Grave

(Special Air Mail Servios)

London, July 20.

DUTCH

RUBBER

INDIES

Native Exports In Check

"Reutér

quota

Tht outbreak, began when a

The announcement that the

The Hague, August 6. Jewish citizen was

accused of Persians are erecting a canopy that the Dutch East Indies Gov- learns authoritatively desecrating the wall of a Moham- over Omar Khayyam's tomb at

ernment la keeping native rubber medan mosque and was passionate. Nishapur will give satisfaction to ly set upon by the angry crowd of all who know this eleventh exports well in check within the worshippers streaming out of the century poes through the medium of the restriction scheme building. The victim's fellow-be-01 FitzGerald's translation of in- Hevers rushed to his assistance and terpretation, and particularly to in the resulting hour-long Tray

the Omar Khayyam Club in Great pistols were brought into use and Britain, a deserving society which even rifte fire was opened from dines once a year in memory of windows overlooking the square.

the respective versifiers An aquiline Italian who was mis- Khorasan and Buffolk.. For long taken for a Semite by the over- Omar's tomb was in a dilapidated

of rioters were delivered to the remedy matters. into unconsciousness. Several score at Teheran did what they could to hospitals with serious injuries

from

whose address will be preceded by foot of space within the great the teeth entered a bank at Amp./ hurried Mohammedans was stoned afate. Successive British Ministers

he lived the nation felt their this being the only item on the Master, General von BlomberK-point of their revolvers, stole Pese while even two policemen were also

hearts overflowing with gratitude to him for the services which the great departed rendered to his people,"

EARLY LIFE

The Fuehrer then spoke of the youth of the dead Relchspresident whose life began in the midst of a revolution. When the year 1848 closed, the conflagration seemed to have been quenched but under the surface the fres went on amouldering. Prussia itself was at that time ke the other states in the German confederation. inter- nally weak and incapable of dis charging a mission inspired by one really constructive idea.

Hindenburg was one of the eye witnesses of the birth of the second German Reich. Germany became a great power. When critical times called him, he placed his life unreservedly at the services of this Reich and our people.

On March 11, 1911, at the age of sixty-four, General von Hinden burg retired from the Army, That seemed to be the end of his ser- vices.

Reuter.

an overture played by a full or- building were Hindenburg's secret- chestra of a hundred musicians, ary, Dr. Meissner, and the Defence sta near Taragona where they held up the bank officials at the programme of the ceremony to be

The Reichbishop's speech palda broadcast throughout Germany personal tribute and recalled in off in a motor car. Armed police tas 50,000 and managed to make and many foreign countries. in-

detail Hindenburg's cluding Italy, America and Japan. contributions to the national life at once took up the chase and

outstanding as a "Prussian soldier, nobleman when the Police car had almost and plous Christian."

caught up with the bandits racing through the streets at a dare-devil shots at their pursuers. A little speed, the gangsters fired several

is and will be in future. Bince the and the bandits managed to make. a symbol of what Germany was, girl was killed by a stray bullet, Field words to me 'see to it that Christ

Marshal-President's last good their escape. be preached in Germany,' I' ere-

Trancean Kuo Min. montously pledged that it will be my first and last endeavour." Transocean Kuo Min.

SAFETY PRECAUTIONS

Berlin, Aug. 8. Shortly before Herr Hitler left the Chancellery two additional Hines of polce formed up with their backs to the procession and facing the crowds. No member of the public was allowed within two hundred yards of the Opera House which Was guarded by detach- ments of the Reichwehr.

It was noticeable that Herr Hitler's followers were also kept under, close observation.

The proceedings opened with. the playing of the overture, Beethoven's Coriolanus.--- Reuter....

Reichpresident," said "Mueller, "s "For all of us the figure of the

SERVICES RELAYED. (Special to Hong Kong Daily Press")

PAPER SUSPENDED FOR

SLANDER

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WORLD CONGRESS

BAPTISTS

Those with inside Information are convinced that the Govern- ment will continue to do so as the natives are now : convinced this will be in their own interests and are satiaded with the prices ob-

tained..

In order to stimulate internal consumption, the Dutch East In- dies Government is exploring various possibilities, including "the application of rubber surface to asphalt roads-Reuter

[Special to the "Hong Kong Daily Press” (Copyright.)]

Madrid, Aug..

Many Better Posts Once the late Bir Mortimer Durand asked the Shah Nasred Din whether something could not. be done to repair Omar's grave. The monarch laughed and said: BLAZING CIRCUS WAGON "Do you mean to tell me there is a society In England connected with Omar Khayyam? Why, he has been dead a thousand years. Gala Assemblies

Besides, we have many better poets thai Omar." This Shah was [Special to the "Hong Kong Dally something of a poet himself, and A "cireus mother" lost her Mie

·Prem", (Copyright.)]

he certainly did not think much of in names in an unsuccessful at Berlin, Aug. 5,

the tent-maker,”

tempt to rescue three children The World Congress of Baptist His opinion was shared by his from a blazing circus wagon en alliance held two gala assemblies countrymen, who, while remember-route near the town of Graus in on Sunday in the huge auditorium ing Omar's mathematical and as- the Province of Heusca on Sunday. of Berlin, the exhibition halls betronomical researches, had long The cinema films of the wandering forgotten his verse. his low es troupe stored in the wagon sud- teem was largely due to the cleri- denly became fgnited, transforming cal induence in Persia, which, the vehicle in a few minutes into considering Omar a heretic, baza sizzling torch. The herole wo ned him as a dangerous mystte, man trouper discovering the wa- It is a sign of the times that Persia, gon's door tightly lacked, chose to is realising that foreign estimation turn back in an attempt to helm of her sons is important and that the three infants to safety, rather, the regard paid by Europears and than spring from the open window Americans to Omar is a national herself. None of them survived. asset.

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ing filed near to capacity by 15,- (By Telegraph, Copyright, Tate-

000 delegates and visitors. An graphic Messages Ordinance, 1894-

Press" (Copyright.)].

early meeting brought forth a Received, August 6, 4-10 p.m.). CROWN PRINCE PRESENT

colourful display of national cos Nuremberg, Aug. 5. Berlin, Aug. 6..

tumes from as far away places as Berlin, Aug. a.

The latest edition of the Radical Hungary, Lapland, Roumania, Arrangements are nearing com- National-Bocialist Weekly The China, Bavaria, New Zealand and Among the first arrivals was the pietion for the funeral of Field Stormer published by the Proyin the coloured diocèses from the greeted by General von Blomberg. the funeral services which are due Streicher, was conscated on BEN Crown Prince. who was warmly Marshal von Hindenburg. To-day elal Governor, Franconis Julius various parts of Africa and Ame- All the members of the Govern. to take place at Mez will be re- day by the police for slander of ment were present, mostly wearing layed to sixty-six stations through the heal of a foreign nation" In Baptists young people was address

The afternoon" assembly of the brown shorts like the Deputies out the world. The German an addition, the weekly has also been ed by speakers from England, Ame The diplomatic gallery was crowd-bassadors in London and Tokio suppressed for two weeks as a fur-ica, Germany and Burma. A ed.

will deliver a funeral oration. This large bust of Hindenburg decorated

Facing, the auditorium was a morning afty-three regimental col- with flowers. Hitler, wearing of Tannenberg arrived in the sta- ours which took part in the battle black arm-band, standing beside Hindenburg's son, delivered a pure-Transocean Kuo Min.

tion of Hohenstein When in November, the revolutly funeral oration Contrary to tion in 1918 finally broke the Ger-expectation he did not refer to man Reich and the German peo-political conditions or the Pre- ple, it was the General Field Mar- shal, that prevented a worst. cata strophe.."

GREAT WAR SERVICE When the World War broke out over Germany, the Kaiser called him from his retirement and Hin- denburg was made Commander-in- Chief of East Prussia.

For the second time the leader of the Army returned and for the second time he was recalled...

On April 26, 1925, he was elected by the German people, as the Pre- "sident of the German Reich ap though at that time nobody had the remotest idea that he would live to be the patron of the new national revolution.

Since that bour when as Chan- cellor of the Reich I took the oath at his hand. "I can swear to feeling

aldency,

Hindenburg is not dead, he re- mains with us." was the keynote of the speech which, only lasting Afteen minutes, praised Hinder- burg's services in the Austro- Prussian and France-Prussian ware, also his long service with the peace time army till 1911 when he retired.

The world arst heard of Hinden burg's name when the Kaiser en' trusted him with the command to stop by defeating the It sans at Ortelsburg, Hindenburg saved tus nation from utter destruction Reuter,

SOVIET MILITARY DISPLAY

Changchun Report.

ther penalty Transocean Kuo Hin..

VESSEL LOST

Kong

mighty Anale was furnished to both sessions by the resounding rendition of a giant choir. Transocean Buo Min.

SOVIET INTEREST IN THE PACIFIC

Special Institute To Be Formed

(Special to "Hong Dally Prem") (ByTelegraph. Copyright, Tels graphic Messages Ordinance, 1974. Receive, August 8.30 p.m.)

Paris, Aug. 6,

Moscow, Aug. 5. A special Pacific Institute, com- Acording to reports from Brazil posed of Boviet experts on Far the "Veto Barbosa" which ran Eastern anairs is to be formed.

aground at Lelroes a few days ago under the chairmanship of Pro- has been declared as definitely fessor Motylevi with the object of Kost Am the greatest dimicul studying oriential problems.

be dia-

The Soviet wil also accept the in- the waves ritation extended to join the Inter-

Dairen, Aug. 8,

that 150,000 picked Red troops and A report from Changchun states numerous air squadrons are parti- ties, cargo continu cipating shortly in manoeuvres charged on Sund along the Amur River and trans threatening Baikal

to wash the deck nations Institute of Pacing Rela

tions Reuter

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