HITLER IN ROME

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 May 1938, Page 8

HITLER IN ROME

RECEIVED WITH ROYAL HONOURS AND NOISE

Italian Capital Illuminated

EVENT IGNORED BY VATICAN CITY

By Telegraph—Press Association. —Copyright. (Recd This Day, 12.20 p.m.)

ROME, May 3. With the exception of the “Osservatore Romano,” which the ignored the event, while the Vatican City displayed neither flags nor garlands, the entire Press headlined Herr Hitler's progress to Rome, where he arrived at 8.30 p.m., at a specially-built station. King Victor Emmanuel, Signor Mussolini, Count .Ciano and other grandees greeted him as he led his entourage from the train and all entered carriage's amid the pealing of music, tossing of flags, shrieking sirens and booming of guns, and traversed the newly made Viale Hitler through the illuminated capital. Eight hundred thousand people lined the route to the Royal Palace.

MUSSOLINI EFFACES HIMSELF

GRANDEUR OF FLOODLIT ROME LEFT TO HITLER.

(Recd This Day, 1.0 p.m.)

ROME, May 3.

Signor Mussolini effaced himself after the welcome at the station, driving home by a circuitous route. Herr Hitler passed under the gateway Saint Paul traversed en route to his execution. The entire progress afforded an object lesson in Roman history, passing monuments ranging from structures raised by the Ceasars to buildings erected yesterday. Four thousand Nazis from Germany, massed at various points, exclaimed at the floodlit grandeur of the Coliseum and the beauty of the floral adornments.