MARTIAL GERMANY
CROWDS CHEER ARMY GREAT MARCH-PAST (United P.A. —Bp Telegraph — Coppright) (Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) BERLIN, Wednesday. Forty thousand people lined the road between Gorlitz and Hennersdorf and enthusiastically cheered the march past ending the Reichswehr's autumn manoeuvres. President Hindenburg, in field-mar-shal’s uniform, surrounded by resplendent oflicers and foreign attaches, reviewed the troops. Dr. Groener, Minister of the Reichswehr, addressing the troops, said: “It is our duty to awaken the public's pride and affection for the Reichswehr, to awaken and reinforce the military soul of the country, which is regretting the poverty of weapons permitted the Reichswehr by the Treaty of Versailles.” He declared that the suggestion that it was the most modern army in the world was only a political excuse used by their enemies to cloak their evasion of the obligation to disarm. Germany’s duty was to carry on an unceasing fight for equality in the matter of armaments. The “Morning Post’s” Berlin correspondent describes the review and the speech as an illuminating sidelight on the disarmament debate at Geneva.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 471, 28 September 1928, Page 13
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174MARTIAL GERMANY Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 471, 28 September 1928, Page 13
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