Ka Hoku o Hawaii, Volume XXVII, Number 34, 11 March 1936 — GERMANY'S ARMY MOVES INTO RHINE [ARTICLE]

GERMANY'S ARMY MOVES INTO RHINE

German and French troops Sunday night moved within pistol shot of each other as Realmleader Adolf Hitler's grey clad columns continued to pour into the Rhineland.

The German troops were welcomed by madly cheering throngs and a martial spirit prevailed everywhere.

Two additional batteries of the Nineteenth German artillery, equipped with the most modern weapons, goose-stepped into Frankfort-on-the-Main through streets lined with cheering and weeping thousands. Anti-air-craft guns were erected at the airport. At Bonn, citizens broke through cordons of storm troops and hung garlands of flowers about the necks of the marching infantry and artillery.

The Duesseldorf aviation squadrons flew in formation over the Rhine while artillery detachments arrived to pass in review before the Rhine Memorial to Uhlans.

Detachments of infantry, cavalry and artillery paraded through beflagged streets of Mainz as the German reoccupation of the Rhine became nearly complete. The new Rhine army which moved into the long demilitarized sector over the week end was estimated to number 45,000 men.