“FOURTH PARTITION”

Evening Star, Issue 23380, 25 September 1939, Page 7

“FOURTH PARTITION”

RUSSIA’S SUBSTANTIAL GAINS IN POLAND HITLER STORING UP TROUBLE FOR HIMSELF (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, September 24. (Received September 25, at 11 a.m.) At the end of the third week of the war two questions are uppermost in the public mind/ and the Sunday papers make a feature of both. Surprise at the Russian move in Poland has given place to speculation as to its effect on the situation.

Mr Garvin, in the ‘ Observer,’ largely devotes himself to a consideration of this, and arrives at the conclusion that so far the “ fourth partition ” of Poland has worked very much to Russian advantage. He points out that Russia has advanced “to s line north and south which on ah average is 160 miles from the former frontier.” Mr Garvin adds that thus between the Baltic States and the Middle Carpathians the Russians hold 11 all strategic and political points famous in old and later wars as commanding rivers, roads, railways, and disputed racial areas.” ' In addition, the desired Carpathian oilfields are lost to Hitler, who is left with the task of “ incorporating in his mixed empire some 30,000,OCX) Slavq who are unsubduable in soul. In the long run they will give him and his system moral wounds.” Although Moscow may give supplies to Germany it- will not be to the degree of Nazi expectation. The Soviet is working for herself, and is likely to follow the advice of the Russian statesman, M. Go^tscacoff: “ Not to labour on behalf of the King of Prussia*”