HITLER’S TRIUMPH

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 October 1938, Page 8

HITLER’S TRIUMPH

ENTRY INTO SUDETENLAND ACCLAIMED BY CROWD SPEECH ON “GREATER GERMAN FUTURE.” ELABORATE CEREMONIAL. By Telegraph—Press Association. Copyright. (Received This Day, 11.15 a.m.) BERLIN, October 3. Herr Hitler, in a motor-car, preceded by two armoured cars and followed b;, a procession of motor-cars conveying Army officers, arrived at the frontier at Wildenau, where a symbolical ceremony was performed. Herr Hitler drove across the frontier under an eagle-flanked archway inscribed: “Sudetenland Welcomes its Liberator.” Herr Henlein ceremoniously received the Fuehrer. Hysterical cheering greeted Herr Hitler in the packed streets of Wildenau and Asch. In a speech at. Eger. Herr Hitler said: "I greet you and the whole of Sudetenland, which in a few days will completely belong to Germany. This greeting is sumultanecusly a vow that the region shall never again be torn from the Reich. We must all stand together. Germany is happy over these days, sharing your joy. Your happiness is that of seventy-five million people, just as your recent sorrows were ours. I give thanks to the Almighty for past blessings and pray for similar blessings in future.” Wild cheering and shouts: “We thank our Fuehrer” continually interrupted the speech. Her Hitler added: “All over the greater German Reich is the protection of the German shield the defence of the German sword. The nation stands in closed formation —all comrades ready to stake their lives for one another. Thus we begin our march into a greater German future.” Fifteen thousand people listened to the speech and gave Herr Hitler an ovation for ten minutes. He is spending the night at. Marneukirchen and will again enter Sudetenland tomorrow. The German military authorities arrested six offeers and men of the Czech Army who were slow in retiring.