GOERING IN PARIS FOR TWO ANNIVERSARIES

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 184, 10 July 1940, Page 6

GOERING IN PARIS FOR TWO ANNIVERSARIES

Last week Goering was in Paris on the occasion of the 21st anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Versailles. By a strange coincidence, it was also the 26th anniversary of the murder of the Austrian Archduke Francis Ferdinand, which set moving with a greater impetus those events which finally culminated in the Great War. As the Archduke motored from manoeuvres to a gala luncheon, a bomb was thrown unsuccessfully fn the suburbs. Two fatal shots were fired as the car reversed out of a narrow street. The murderers were subjects of Austria; the weapers they used were from a Serbian arsenal. They had been supplied to the assassins by a Serbian officer who was a member of a secret society known as the Black Hand. The Serbs were inspired by hatred for Austria, which persecuted the orthodox Serb subjects and Stood in the way of Serbian national unity. Austria had already determined to make Serbia again dependent and the murder opened the way for military action. The other occasion of which June 28 is the anniversary is the signing of the treaty which ■brought an end to hostilities, even if it did not bring peace. It was brought into force on January 10, 1920, and at a very early date its provisions began to be modified and revised—a process which Hitler continued with brutal determination and opportunism. •