Admiral Horthy dissaproves of you mocking him!
Posted on 08/26/2008 5:15:33 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
Hitler displayed the flower of his army to Admiral Horthy of Hungary in a parade in Berlin yesterday. Sensational arms revelations were made. One was a mobile 10-inch gun, carried in motorized sections, said to be capable of sending shells seventeen to thirty miles. There was also a mobile howitzer of a new type, as well as new tanks.
In all, 16,000 infantrymen, 750 cavalrymen, 690 motor vehicles, 412 tanks and armored cars, 318 motor cycles, 300 guns and 72 horse-drawn vehicles passed before the Regent and Chancellor Hitler. At a fast clip they were two hours in passing. It was even a more impressive military display than Premier Mussolini witnessed.
Infantry, anti-aircraft guns and searchlights, light field artillery and more infantry, mine throwers, cavalry, bicycle scouts, heavy filed artillery, tanks and an anti-tank division, and a wireless and intelligence unit went by successively. The faces of the Hungarians indicated plainly how much they were impressed by the perfect discipline and coordination they saw. Yet the troops came from a single army corps – the third, stationed near Berlin.
Even more impressed was another small group of watchers, the military attaches of foreign powers, for the equipment paraded contained two distinct surprises of materiel never before seen in any army. The foreign experts did not know that the Germans had such things – and they do not know all about them yet. For all they saw was a minute-long glimpse as the motorized vehicles moved swiftly along. Both surprises were the new field guns. The first was the most remarkable mobile heavy gun not railroad-mounted ever beheld anywhere. It represents a new principle in field pieces and is a military sensation. Four specimens were in the parade.
Each gun was in five sections pulled by heavy trucks and apparently had a total crew of thirty-seven to forty men. The guns seemed to have a maximum caliber of from 24 to 28 centimeters, making them the equivalent of 10-inch guns. The caliber may be larger; certainly it was not smaller.
The first section comprised a carriage; second, a gun cradle; third, a “mystery load” the character of which could not be determined, but it was probably a cylinder plus recuperator which would bring the gun back to position after the recoil. The fourth load seemed to comprise parts and incidentals for assembling and using the gun and the fifth was a gun barrel between forty and forty-five feet long.
This gun can apparently traverse the highway at a speed of thirty miles an hour. This high speed is possible because when the gun is dismantled its delicate recoil mechanism is in no danger of being thrown out of line, not being attached to heavier parts. Expert opinion was that it could be set up and got into action within two hours, the period being determined by the amount of digging necessary to place it firmly in position. Its range is probably not less than 30,000 yards, that is, more than seventeen miles, for accurate shooting. A French opinion was that the accurate range would be almost twice that – about 30 miles.
Its appearance left foreign military attaches astounded with set faces. A French attaché was noted making hurried notes on his shirt cuff.
This is actually the greatest artillery surprise since the German Big Berthas bombarded Paris from inside the distant German lines in the Spring of 1918. There were seven of those guns and they had a range of eighty miles for a 265-pound shell. No Allied officer or soldier ever set eyes on one, for in the German retreat they were moved back, and before the peace treaty was signed they all were taken to the Krupp works and melted down. Also a law was passed in Germany making it high treason, punishable by death, to disclose any data about them. Their exact construction and the composition of special powder they use are German secrets to this day.
Today’s second surprise was the 21-centimeter howitzer, which alone would have been a sufficient military sensation. This gun is also motorized and in two loads. Its carriage apparently is interchangeable with the carriage of a 15-centimerter gun.
Among the tanks seven different suspension types passed, including a new type of “half track” motor truck. Most of the motorized equipment has been changed to four-wheel drive.
A half million spectators massed along the line of march watched this show. Many of them seemed to know something about military equipment, for the crowd’s enthusiasm over the motorized part of it was marked. This was particularly notable when the two sensational sections of new artillery passed.
Admiral Horthy in his Admiral’s uniform and Hitler in his customary plain khaki stood side by side taking the salute. Behind them were ranged in addition to the Hungarian ministers Col. Gen. Walther von Brauchitsch, Commander in Chief of the Army; General Wilhelm Keitel, head of the Supreme Command of the Army; Air Minister Hermann Goering and three of the highest officers of the Hungarian Army, Field Marshal Dome Satojay, Field Marshal Janyi and Colonel Hardy.
In a stand alongside was the diplomatic corps and near by members of the Hungarian colony in Berlin, for which a special stand was provided.
The aviation display of 100 of the newest German planes had to be called off at the last minute on account of the weather. There was an intermittent drizzle and the ceiling was low, making flying dangerous. Undoubtedly what happened last week when a low-flying military plane crashed in the Alexanderplatz, killing a half dozen civilians, played a part in this decision.
The morning military parade was the chief feature of Admiral Horthy’s day, but all of it was well filled. His first act this morning was to lay a wreath on the German war memorial. Then Hitler called for him for the ceremonial drive through Unter den Linden and Charlottenburg Chausace to the reviewing stand.
In the afternoon the Regent visited the Hungarian Institute and the Hungarian College, and with his wife met members of the Hungarian colony there. A little girl in national dress presented a bouquet to Mme. Horthy and she and her husband signed the guest book begun in 1842 and laid a wreath on the memorial in the college grounds to the Hungarian residents of Berlin who fell in the war.
Tonight a gala performance of “Lohengrin” was given for them at the State Opera House. Tomorrow the guests will visit Potsdam, breakfasting with Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop at Charlottenburger Palace, once the home of the German Kaiser. In the afternoon they are to be the guests of the Goerings at their forest home. Thence they will take their special train for a brief visit to Nuremberg and return home.
There is every indication from the German viewpoint that this State visit has yielded all hoped from it. One special fruit now that Hungary’s right to rearm has been acknowledged by the Little Entente is likely to be that Hungary will become a heavy buyer of German military equipment, thus wiping out the large balance owed to her by Germany for agricultural products and now “frozen” in the Reichsbank.
Mayor Alexander Lafrenier said today that complaints by village residents of “immodest” and “immoral” costumes worn by Summer visitors, male and female, resulted in the Town Council passing a by-law banning shorts on its streets or in any public place within its limits.
Signs are posted around the town warning visitors of the decree. A constable patrols the village borders to warn visitors that they risk arrest if they wear shorts within corporate limits.
The process employs a quick-drying formula for cement. With it a “pill box” 20 feet long, 12 feet wide and 9 feet high was build and completed in the demonstration.
Karl P. Billner of New York City, inventor of the process, has adapted it to commercial use. He said that, with practice, building time for a “pill box” such as the one he demonstrated today might be reduced to two hours.
Two more patrolmen were arrested yesterday on “shakedown” charges, bringing to five the number of members of the police force locked up as aides of alleged extortioners in the last two weeks.
The patrolmen, Fred Damrau of the West 123d Street station and Arthur M. Riordan of the West 135th Street station, were named in an indictment charging extortion and conspiracy which was handed up by the Kings County grand jury. Also named was Sam Davis of 795 East 151st Street, the Bronx, who was arrested two weeks ago with three other policemen on charges of swindling furriers of large sums of money. Another man, a civilian, was named. He is being sought.
The two patrolmen and the two civilians are alleged to have “framed” Harry and Benjamin Slomowitz, manufacturers of upholstery at 108 Lorraine Steet, by inducing them to ride in an automobile containing slugs used illegally to operate coin machines. Harry Slomowitz paid $500 to avoid arrest when the car was stopped by the policemen by arrangement with the civilians, it was charged.
The Slomowitz brothers were in an automobile with Davis and the other man on May 3, 1937, riding on Lafayette Avenue, when the patrolmen, then assigned to detective duty in the Bronx, stopped the car and searched it, the indictment charges. On finding the slugs the patrolmen threatened to arrest the brothers.
Damrau accompanied Harry Slomowitz to a Brooklyn bank, where the upholstery manufacturer drew out $500, and back to the Bronx, where he turned it over to the man who is still at liberty, and then the patrolman allowed the brothers to go free, it is charged.
Departmental charges were made against both policemen Dec. 16, 1937, for not making a report of their failure to make an arrest when they seized the slugs, according to police records, but these were dismissed last April 16. The patrolmen, placed under arrest at Brooklyn Police Headquarters, protested their innocence. They will be arraigned this morning in Kings County Court.
There's a word that's probably not in your spell-checker. Someone ought to ask the mods...
Quebec Village Bans Shorts as Men’s Attire
Fortress Built in a Day With Fast-Drying Cement
2 More Police Held in ‘Shakedown’ Plots; Accusers Say ‘Frame-Up’ Cost Them $500
Oh, oh. I think I misspelled the title in #3. Should be Built in a Day
YESTERDAY’S RESULTS
New York 5, Cleveland 2 (1st).
New York 15, Cleveland 3 (2d).
St. Louis 8, Philadelphia 5 (1st, 13 innings).
Philadelphia 4, St. Louis 1 (2d).
Boston 1, Chicago 0(1st). < br > Boston 9, Chicago 5 (2d).
Washington 8, Detroit 2.
American League
……………………..Won….Lost…Percentage…….Games Behind
N. Y ………………...79……36…….687………………….-
Boston……………….65……46…….586………………….12
Cleve..……………….64……49…….566………………….14
Wash..…………….....60……57…….513…………………..20
Detroit.………………57……59…….491………………….22 1/2
Chic.…………………48……62…….436………………….28 1/2
Phila...……………….41……73…….360………………….37 1/2
St. L………………….40……72….....357………………….37 1/2
GAMES TODAY
Cleveland at New York (2, 1:30 P. M.)..
St. Louis at Philadelphia (2).
Chicago at Boston(2).
Detroit at Washington.
National League
YESTERDAY’S RESULTS
New York 8, St. Louis 7(11 innings).
Chicago 3, Brooklyn 2 (1st).
Chicago 5, Brooklyn 4 (2d).
Philadelphia 2, Pittsburgh 1(1st).
Philadelphia 2, Pittsburgh 1(2d, 11 innings).
Boston 6, Cincinnati 4 (1st, 12 innings).
Boston 3, Cincinnati 2 (2d).
……………………..Won….Lost…Percentage…….Games Behind
Pitts …………………69……45…….655………………….-
N. Y.………………...65……50…….565…………………..4 1/2
Cincin.………………64……53…….547…………………..6 1/2
Chic....……………… 64……53…….547…………………..6 1/2
Boston ………………56…...58……..491………………….13
Bklyn ……………….53…...62……..461…………………..16 1/2
St. L………………....52…...63……..452………………….17 1/2
Phila…………………36…...75……..324………………….31 1/2
GAMES TODAY
New York at St. Louis .
Brooklyn at Chicago .
Philadelphia at Pittsburgh.
Boston at Cincinnati .
Admiral Horthy dissaproves of you mocking him!
What “new tanks” would have been in the 1938 parade? Panzer II’s? Still would have be fun to watch...
My Boston Braves won two games yeasterday, Pittsburgh lost two games and the Braves are still 13 games out of first!! If this keeps up they’ll just have to move the team.
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?
Nevermind.................................
From 1936 to 1940 the Braves were known as the “Bees.” That is a bit of trivia I just learned from Wiki.
I just looked it up myself. I knew there was another name change in there (the Bean Eaters being long gone) but I couldn’t remember what it was.
Ah, the Germans and their love for artillery.
Its appearance left foreign military attaches astounded with set faces. A French attaché was noted making hurried notes on his shirt cuff.
Looks like it inspired another emotion in the German's neighbors.
They probably wouldn't have been considered 'new' by then. Perhaps some prototype Panzer IIIs (built in 1937) or a IV B. Given the rest of the text, however, the writer could have even been referring to armored cars.
The Germans certainly did have large RAIL GUNS, possibly the most famous being the 11 inch Anzio Annie:
I'll keep looking, but if anyone can beat me to it, go right ahead! ;-)
The expert preparations for the onslaught on Czechoslovakia were obviously in fine shape by the summer's end. But what about the defense of the west, should the French honor their word to the Czechs and attack? On August 26 Hitler set off for a tour of the western fortifications accompanied by Jodl, Dr. Todt, the engineer in charge of building the West Wall, Himmler and various party officials. On August 27 General Wilhelm Adam, a blunt and able Bavarian who was in command of the west, joined the party and in the next couple of days witnessed how intoxicated the Fuehrer became at the triumphal reception he was given by the Rhine-landers. Adam himself was not impressed; in fact, he was alarmed, and on the twenty-ninth in a surprising scene in Hitler's private car he abruptly demanded to speak with the Fuehrer alone. Not without sneers, according to the General's later report, Hitler dismissed Himmler and his other party cronies. Adam did not waste words. He declared that despite all the fanfare about the West Wall he could not possibly hold it with the troops at his disposal. Hitler became hysterical and launched into a long harangue about how he had made Germany stronger than Britain and France together.
"The man who doesn't hold these fortifications," Hitler shouted, "is a scoundrel!"*
* Hitler, according to Jodl's diary, used the word Hundsfott, a stronger word. Telford Taylor, in Sword and Swastika, gives a fuller account based on General Adam's unpublished memoirs.
William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Pg. 378
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