LATE WAR NEWS

Evening Star, Issue 23374, 18 September 1939, Page 10

LATE WAR NEWS

third leaflet A LITTLE MORE LIGHT FOR GERMAN PEOPLE THE BRUTAL NAZIS (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY. September 17. (Received September 18, at noon.) The text of the second and third of ‘the leaflets distributed by the R.A.F. aircraft over Germany was issued by the Ministry of Information to-night. The second, as already reported, contained Mr Chamberlain’s broadcast remarks to the German people on the night of the outbreak of war. The third reads as follows: — “ Despite the efforts of all men of goodwill to avert the catastrophe, the Nazi Government has plunged the world into war. This war is a crime. The Germans, who are a logical people, should make a clear distinction between the pretext on which their leaders started, and the principles that have compelled the British and French democracies to defend Poland’s independence. . ■ “ From the start the British Government declared its belief that there was nothing in the Polish question to justify a European war, with all its tragic consequences. The Munich settlement was followed five months later by the brutal destruction of Czechoslovakia's independence by your leaders. If Poland was not to go the way of Czecho-Slovakia, we had to insist that peaceful methods and negotiations should not be paralysed by threats of violence, and that any settlement should safeguard the vital interests of Poland, and should be honourably carried out.' “ If the Chancellor of the Reich Imagined the fear of war would induce the British Government to betray the cause of Poland, he made a fatal, mistake. It is not England’s way to break her pledged word, and, more than this, the time has come to call a halt to the rule of brute force which the Nazi Government wishes to impose on the world. In precipitating this war he has come up against the inexorable will of the British Government, backed not only by the whole resources of the united British Empire, but also by an alliance of great Powers to maintain unimpaired human liberty and the rights of free peoples to a free existence. “Up to the last moment the Pope, the President of the United States, and the King of the Belgians, speaking for Belgium, Holland, Luxembough, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Finland, turned to your Nazi Government and besought Germany to choose the way of mediation rather than that of war.” “ You go into this war isolated from the commonwealth of civilised peoples and having the support of nobody but Communist Russia. You cannot win this war. You are confronted by far greater resources than your own. For years an iron censorship and a widespread system of espionage prevented you from knowing the truth and from speaking your mind about the cruelties and injustice perpetrated in your name —against you you have the united strength of free peoples who, with their eyes wide open, will fight to the last for liberty—yours as well as theirs. We hate war as much as we know you do. But remember that Britain never gives way. Our nerves are tougher than yours. We shall never give up.” OPINION IN AMERICA MAJORITY AGAINST ARMED INTERVENTION VAR EXPECTED TO END WITHIN A YEAR WASHINGTON, September 17. (Received September 18, at 10 a.m.) According to a American Institute of Public Opinion survey only 16 per cent, of Americans are in favour of •ending the army and navy against Germany at present, but 44 per cent, want to intervene if Britain and France appear to be losing within the next few months. Eighty-two per cent, believ.q that the Allies will win without American armed assistance, while 49 per cent, think the war will end within a year. AMERICA SHOULD STAY OUT COLONEL LINDBERGH’S VIEWS WASHINGTON, September 15. Colonel Lindberg, in a broadcast, pleaded with the United States to stay out of iho European war. issuing a warming that the entrance of the imperial American democracy would mean the loss of several million lives. “It would be madness to send soldiers to be killed, as was the case in the Great War. If the United States enters Europe’s quarrels in war-time she must stay in them in peace-time. If war prostrates Europe Western civilisation’s greatest hope lies in a strong America.” BRITAIN AND NEUTRAL COUNTRIES A GERMAN WARNING LONDON, September 17. (Received September 18, at 1.5 p.m.) The Copenhagen correspondent of * The Times ’ states that Scandinavian newspapers print a strong warning from Germany that the Foreign Office has proof that Britain is threatening several neutrals.The four northern countries are meeting at .Copenhagen to-morrowj

A POLISH ARMY • TO BE FORMED IN FRANCE TENS OF THOUSANDS OF VOLUNTEERS NEW YORK, September 17. (Received September 18, at 1.15 p.m.) The Paris correspondent of the ‘ New York Times ’ states that Polish organisations are sponsoring the formation of a Polish army in France with the cooperation of the French Government. There are tens of thousands of volunteers from 500,000 Poles throughout France, but it is announced that the Poles will he mobilised in the same way as French nationals. Thousands of volunteers are expected from among the 1,000,000 Poles resident in Belgium, Holland, Britain, America, and Canada.' The army will he an autonomous unit, with its own command, co-operating with the French general Equipment and organisation will be identical with those of the French. The commander will he General Burhard Bukacki. Colonel January Grzcdzinski, a former aviator and a former aide to Marshal Pilsudski, is directing the organisation and training. POSSESSION OF VILNA SETTLEMENT BY NEGOTIATION LITHUANIA'S REASONABLE ATTITUDE KOYNO, September 17. (Received September 18, at noon.) No Lithuanian move is expected against Vilna. The Polish town is claimed as Lithuanian, being so recognised by the Russo-Lithuanian peace treaty of 1930,' but Lithuania is not taking advantage of Poland’s desperate situation. She is willing to settle the question by negotiation. In the meantime she is strengthening her forces on the Polish frontier; INDIA'S CO-OPERATION MR GANDHI'S APPEAL TO BRITAIN ... \ WARDHA, September 17. (Received September 18, at 9 a.m.) Mr Gandhi appealed to Britain for “honest action to implement her declarations of faith in democracy made on the eve of war.” He added: “ Recognition of India and all those under the British Crown as free and independent nations seems to me the natural corollary of the British profession of democracy. If, war means anything less than co-operation of dependent countries it can never he honestly voluntary unless haqed on non-violence. What is required is a mental revolution of British statesmen. Will Britain have an unwilling India dragged into war or a willing ally co-operating witn her in defence of democracy? Support by Congress will mean the greatest moral asset in favour of Britain and France.” , TRADING WITH ENEMY REGULATIONS IN BRITAIN (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, September 17. (Received September 18, at noon.) Two notices issued by the Board of Trade deal with trading with the enemy. The first gives the names of 278 persons, including firms carrying business on in various foreign countries who for the purpose of the Trading With the Enemy Act shall he deemed to be enemies, and traders, shipowners, and others are warned against having dealings with them. The other order makes provision for payment to custodians of enemy property who were appointed in the last few days of all moneys normally payable to or for the benefit of an enemy, and, in particular, all dividends, bonuses or interest, capital sums, profits or debts, including bank balances, rents, insurance money, etc. FOOD RATIONING CARDS NATIONAL REGISTRATION ORDERED LONDON, September lr. (Received September 18, at 10 a.m.) National registration on September 29 of civilians in Britain and Northern Ireland was ordered to-day as a basis for the distribution of food rationing cards. CURTAILED SCHEDULE LONDON, September 17. (Received September 18, at 11 a.m.) Sixty-five thousand enumerators will collect complete schedules for the national register, announced to take place on September 29. Compared with the ordinary census the form of schedule has been drastically curtailed, asking only the following information;—Full name and address, sex, date of birth, single or married, occupation, and branch of national service, if any, in which the individual is enrolled. HOHENZOLLERN PRINCES EIGHT AT FRONT LONDON, September 17. (Received September 18, at 12.35 p.m.) The British United Press Bucharest correspondent says eight Hohenzollern princes, including Prince Oscar, who was killed, went to the Polish front.

ENGLAND'S SUGAR STOCKS LITTLE FEAR OF SHORTAGE [Pke United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, September IS. According to Mr. R. M. Rook, a London sugar broker, who was a passenger from Sydney on the Mariposa, England need fear no immediate shortage of sugar. “ There are ample supplies to last a considerable time,” he said. The only hitch to ample supplies reaching London would be transport difficulties in all the producing countries, for the output was satisfactory. Mr Rook has interrupted a world tour to return to London. BOMBING OF OPEN TOWNS M. MOSCICKI'S MESSAGE TO AMERICA BUCHAREST, September 17. (Received September 18, at 10 a.m.) The President of Poland, M. JVloseieki, sent a message to President Roosevelt stating that German aeroplanes “bombarded methodically and with premeditation open Polish towns and villages.” Thousands of civilians in towns without military objectives had been killed and wounded.