GERMAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 May 1927, Page 3

GERMAN NEWS.

[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.] THE GERMAN PARADE. BERLIN. -May 8. The Goosestep and field grey returned to the capital for the week end, when eighty thousand ex-service men carrying hundreds of war standards on which it. steel helmet was embossed marched past the grandstands of the stadium. It was the first big niilitai.. ceremonial after the war. A former high army commander galloped ahead as the columns swung along the field, goose stepping, passing with lowered flags in front of a special box m which the ex-Kaiser’s two sons, Princes August and Oscar and several war time generals anil admirals stood tit the salute. After the manoeuvres the Princes and generals reviewed to the accompaniment of martini music. “Germany Over All” was sung. the onlookers joining. There was a similar parade ,at Lustogarten adjoining the ex-Kaiser’s palace. 'There were several disturbances and two hundred arrests. The steel helmet leader’s speech from the National Gallery was carried all over the square by loud speakers. He said the Stahlhelms did not recognise the Treaty of Versailles, and later treaties, and demanded the restoration of conscription, the revocation of the war guilt declaration which was extracted from Germany forcibly --W™ above all, the restoration of the black, white and red Hag. under which Germany carried on her must heroic strugglo against the world. Ihc latter statement was received with tremendous applause. Two minutes silence in memory of the dead followed then a hymn, then four times repeated “Germany Over All.”