JUTLAND BATTLE

Hokitika Guardian, 2 June 1931, Page 6

JUTLAND BATTLE

GERMAN FREEING. 1 >mt«d Prt>M* Ahblm irtOiou--By El*ctrn i LONDON, May 31. The “Tinios,” Berlin correspondent , state s President Von Hincienburg at- ! tended a commemoration of the .fut- ! land Battle at the War Ministry, ' where Admiral Von Trotha, the Chief iof Staff of the former High Seas i Fleet, paid a tribute to the sailors _aiid to Admiral Von Tirpitz, whose oust was unveiled. A Naval detachment mounted guard |at the President’s Palace in honour of the day. GERMAN FASCISTS. BERLIN, May 31. j The Ex-Crown Prince, Field Marshall Mackensen and other famous war j leaders witnessed a parade- by one j hundred and twenty steel helmets at i Breslau on the anniversary of the I Hot Lin of Jutland. Fiery • speeches J were made, which stirred a vast assemblage present to sing “Deutsch- | land liber Allies,” and other PatriI otic songs. [Meanwhile in the workingclass quar- | ter s at Breslau, Socialists marched in the streets shouting “Deatlr to the j Steel Helmets’ “Down with the Fascists!” | The police speedily suppressed - tlio demonstration. The only ■ serious ’incident was when a shot was filed at a train carrying S+eel Helmets, one of ; whom wa s killed. j The speeches at the Steel Helmets ' narado w ore confined to the minor I leaders, who emphasised that this movement would never surrender land | which once was Gorman, and would | never u?cognise the frontier,, of the ■ Treaty of Versailles, ;jnd would never j rest until all German' land has been returned to the Reich. : FRENCH FEELING. V. V PARTS, May 31. Tlie Steel Helmet demonstration in Germany has hardened the French attidute towards disarmament and lias increased the scepticism regarding I German pacificism.