(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Eighteen thousand persons filled the huge Sport Palace, and many thousands were unable to gain admittance, remaining outside the building. to listen to the first address delivered by Adolf Hitler, leader of the German bigotry forces,since the prohibition issued by the Prussian authorities against his public addresses five years ago. The ban against him was recently lifted.
Admission to the hall was not free. Large detachments of police were on duty in the vicinity to preserve order. Hitler, reiterating his well-known views delivered an address which was termed by those who heard him as ” moderately anti-Semitic.”
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