POPULAR ACCLAIM

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 April 1938, Page 8

POPULAR ACCLAIM

BERLIN CROWDS DEMAND TO SEE HITLER POLICE GUARD SWEPT AWAY. WAITING FOR THE PLEBISCITE RESULT. By Telegraph.—Press Association, Copyright. (Recd This Day, 12.35 p.m.) BERLIN, April 10. Herr Hitler and a majority of the members of Cabinet assembled at the Chancellery in the evening to listen to the broadcast of the results of the election. Vast crowds outside demanded to see Herr Hitler and when he came on to the balcony they surged forward and swept away the police who were striving to restrain them. Herr Hitler smilingly saluted and disappeared, the crowd vociferously appealing for his return. PLEBISCITE BABY. CHILD BORN IN POLLING STATION. (Recd This Day, 1.5 p.m.) BERLIN, April 10. Polling generally was somnolent in the afternoon. Although arrangements for secrecy were made in curtained booths at the polling stations, many disregarded them. However, it is usually possible to vote in the negative without danger of discovery. The newspapers acclaim as a plebiscite baby, a girl-born in a polling station.

PLEBISCITE RESULT OVERWHELMING “YES” VOTE. IN AUSTRIA AND GERMANY ALIKE. (Recd This Day, 1.46 p.m.) BERLIN, April 11. By 11.40 p.m., the German percentage in favour of the Anschluss was 98.96. The voting was 30,051,575 “Yes” and 276,216 “No” with 47,620 invalid. Austrians living in Germany and eligible to vote number 34,849. Of these 34,668 “Yes” and 143 “No” with 38 invalid votes. A message from Vienna states that the Austrian vote, which was counted separately showed a percentage of 99.75 in favour of the Anschluss. “Yes” voters numbered

4,273,884 and 10,567 voted "No.” Dr. Schuschnigg, who is only under detention, could have voted, but refrained.

Herr Hitler, broadcasting after the announcement of the Austrian voting, said: “The Austrian results, like those from the rest of the Reich, surpass my expectation. Austria’s is a declaration of true feeling and expression of confidence. , This is the proudest hour of my life. I thank the whole German people, especially in my Austrian homeland, from the bottom of my heart.”