SIX-POINT AGREEMENT DISCLOSED

Evening Star, Issue 23375, 19 September 1939, Page 9

SIX-POINT AGREEMENT DISCLOSED

Inspired Statement in Berlin Press PEACE AND ORDER TO BE ESTABLISHED Anglo-French Alliances No Longer Exist Ptcm Association-By Telegraph—Copyright • BERLIN, September 18. (Received September 19, at 10 a.m.) With the High Command claiming the complete collapse of the Polish front and 1 German and Soviet troops about 50 miles apart, the German Press to-day published an inspired statement disclosing a six-point German-Russian agreement for the partition of Poland. The Governments agreed:— 1. The Polish State, from the moment of its creation after the world war, lacked the natural conditions of Statehood. 2. The Polish State collapsed through its own incompetence. 3. Germany and Russia must reorganise the various nationalities in Poland by “ creating corporate bodies of Europe.” 4. The task of Germany and Russia is to establish a complete new settlement of their spheres of influence, assuring peace and order. 5. The British and French claims that they should assist Poland have been proved groundless and their alliances with Poland no longer exist. 6. Britain and France are now confronted with the question, what is their objective in fighting Germany. ' ’ Well-infornied sources here believe that Germany will shortly propose peace to Britain and France on the basis of a fait accompli in Poland. The London correspondent, of the United Press of America states - that , according to information received by foreign embassies here Britain has decided to protest to the Soviet ' Government against the invasion of Poland, The Berlin radio says Russia and Germany are merely aiming to re-establish peace in Poland. “The action of the Russian and' German troops is not connected in any aims contrary' to the spirit of the Russian-German non-aggression pact,” it says. Well-informed circles state that there will not be a rupture in Britain’s diplomatic relations with Russia, much less a declaration of war, since it is thought that Russia is . believed to be serving her own vital interests by the invasion. The British United Press Association’s Moscow correspondent states that ‘lzvestia’ publishes a map clearly indicating the proposed new Polish boundaries under the ambiguous caption, “ Exit Line of German Troops.” The line extends from a point on the far eastern frontier through Bialystock, Brest-Litovsk, and Lwow (Lemberg), to Carpathians near the junction of the Rumanian arid Ruthenian frontiers. The implication is that Soviet troops are expected to take all Western White Russia and Western Ukrain, .leaving the Germans a free band with the remainder of Poland. ,