HITLER SETS OUT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 May 1938, Page 8

HITLER SETS OUT

UPROARIOUS FAREWELL IN BERLIN THOUSANDS LINE STREETS. GOERING ON THE MEETING IN ROME. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) Copyright. (Recd This Day, 11.40 a.m.) BERLIN, May 2. Thousands uproariously farewelled Herr Hitler at 4.45 p.m. All work ceased early, employees marching in bodies to line the streets. The Anhalt Station was a forest of Italian and German flags. Marshal Goering, in a speech, said the visit was of the greatest importance to the peace of the world, because the two greatest men of the century were meeting in Rome. Herr Hitler talked animatedly on the platform with Marshal Goering, who is temporarily head of the State. Herr Hitler obviously was in his best humour. EFFORTS TO IMPRESS ROME READY FOR HECTIC WEEK. • BIG NAVAL AND MILITARY CONCENTRATIONS. (Reed This Day, 1.40 p.m.) LONDON, May 2. The Rome correspondent of “The Times” says the city is preparing for a hectic week. Herr Hitler’s visit is likely to become legendary. Never since the Field of the Cloth of Gold has one ruler made a more elaborate and more extravagant effort to impress another. The estimated cost is between three and four millions sterling. Almost the entire fleet of two hundred vessels, including ninety submarines, has assembled for a display at Naples and there will be equally impressive Air Force and Army concentrations.