Show Rhineland Army Day D' Honors German Celebration Marks Anniversary Of Defiance To Terms O Of V Versailles p Peace e Treaty f I 1 C Copyright p 1936 The 1936 Th The 1 Associated Press ress Ii t tRA OrrA A AI ON RA ON Germany Mar March arch h 16 The The celebrated the first anni anniversary to a Army Day vers iy of German rearmament in d fiance defiance of the Versailles treaty with to the symbolic charac character er of tie e troop occupation now ten days old Military pomp was banned Parades were sketchy 1 No display dis ril play y aJ power r took place at the tile a airdrome rd ome though a squadron i of small scouting planes was drawn up before the hangars The mildness of the observance was as due ue In part to the dampening influence nce of the international situation situ situ- atlon Symbolic Character Stressed The deliberate emphasis sis on the symbolic character of the tile military mill mili tary tai occupation so characterized by fuehrer Adolf Hitler Hitler- a week ago last Saturday led to the cancellation of a big scale troop review scheduled for today It would have been the first of its us kind here since 1914 As Frankfort On Main a the arrival of the German dictator for an address tonight nineteen battalions of regular troops contented contented con cor- tented themselves with a brief be- be fore breakfast m march through the streets Then Th n they retired to barracks and the Swastika streets streeL w were r dominated throughout the tile day h by bythe bythe the black and brown Nazi formations formations forma mobilized for Hitler's littler's visit Gen Hermann G Goering minister or of aviation arrived unannounced for a first inspection of the air force since German troops marched march ed into the Rhineland War VAl Dead Honored During the forenoon guard regiments regiments regi ments marched to the monument to the war dead to dEpa deposit it wreaths Newspaper editorials stressed the defensive character of of the tile Rhineland occupation and emphasized sized that the new German troops had the high calling of defending the soil soU of the homeland With the arrival of Hitler th this evening the populace will be given the he opportunity to show how it its en en- for his Ills Locarno coup dc de force |