GERMAN PLEDGE TO POLAND

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 156, 28 March 1939, Page 9

GERMAN PLEDGE TO POLAND

Reported Renunciation Of Claims IF PLAN FOR COMMON FRONT IS REJECTED Anti-Nazi Demonstrations Continue (Independent Cable Service.) (Received March 27, 7.30 p.m.) LONDON, March 27. Despite denials published in Warsaw, it is learned from most reliable and authoritative sources in Paris that Germany gave Poland secret but formal assurances renouncing all her claims to Danzig in exchange for a Polish refusal to join the proposed common front with France, Britain, and Russia. It is also declared that Germany assured Poland that she has no designs on the Polish Corridor. In Warsaw today, a meeting of ex-servicemen, attended by 7000 delegates, enthusiastically resolved that, as Poland was the only barrier to German progress eastward, they would calmly await the order to march.

They adopted a resolution declaring that the complete union of the whole nation under the President and the army chief was the urgent need. Poland must become a fortress. Every Pole must stand to his post, rifle in hand. The Cultural Union at Katowice adopted a similar resolution.

In Teschen, on the Czech frontier, students and others joined a meeting of housewives and formed a procession of 14,000, which marched through the main street chanting slogans, with flying banners emblazoned: “Poland is not Czechoslovakia. Danzig is not Memel.” POLITICAL AMNESTY GRANTED (Received March 27. 11.30 p.m.) WARSAW, March 27. lu an effort to unite all parties in a solid defence bloc, the Government is granting an amnesty to political exiles, of whom the most notable is the Peasant Party leader and former Premier, M. Witos. GERMANS MASS ON SWISS BORDER (Independent Cable Service.) PARTS, March 26. It is reported that the Swiss ha ve learned I hat 700,000 German troops are mussing on the Swiss border. This is the reason why the Swiss are calling up several classes of reserve troops.