“GERMANY’S ONLY CONCERN”

Evening Star, Issue 23382, 27 September 1939, Page 7

“GERMANY’S ONLY CONCERN”

ENEMY MAY VIOLATE NEUTRAL COUNTRIES FRENCH PRISONERS MAY BE RELEASED BERLIN, September 26. (Received September 27, at 8 a.m.) Official quarters state that Germany’s only concern on the western front is lest the enemies violate the neutrality of Belgium and Holland. It is hinted that she may release French prisoners at a gesture of friendship to Prance. An official broadcast stressed Hitler’s warm feelings towards General von Fritsch. The Minister of the Interior has ordered official mourning.

LIQUIDATION OF POLAND SOVIET-GERMAN GO-OPERATION WARSAW'S FATE NOT INDICATED NEW YORK, September 20. The Berlin correspondent of the ‘ New York Times ’ says neutral diplomatic circles assume that co-operation between Russia and Germany will bo further accelerated this week. ft is understood that the geographic and political liquidation of Boland is being undertaken immediately. Warsaw s fate has not been indicated, but it is inferred that it may bo included in a quasi-protectorate or given to the Soviet. There is no doubt that Russia and Germany have completely agreed that* the Polish problem can be solved entirely between them, and the final settlement will constitute notification to Britain that Europe is no longer “ a playground for her diplomacy.” RUSSIANS IN POLAND SPREADING KNOWLEDGE OF COMMUNISM REORGANISATION OF AGRICULTURE MOSCOW, September 26. (Received September 27, at 8 a.m.) Telephones in “ bourgeois homes ” in Russian Poland have been disconnected. General reorganisation of farms and agriculture is being pushed on. Tens of thousands of Stalin’s ‘ History of the Communist Party ’ are being distributed among peasants, workers, and school children. Soviet troops generally arc disinclined to fight when they approach the Poles, who also seldom offer combat. The entire Russo-Rumaninu frontier has been closed as a precautionary measure. BUFFER STATE UNLIKELY , NEW YORK, September 26. The Moscow correspondent of the ‘New York Times’ says: “The distribution of a revolutionary leaflet in the Ukraine and White Russian areas in Poland surprised circles, which believed that the Soviet had abandoned the spreading of revolutionary prin--ciples and was pursuing a purely N.m poleonic policy as a genuine ally of Germany. Should the Red Army pursue similar revolutionary tactics in the purely Polish areas which are being taken over from the Germans, it would finally dispose of the theory that Russia had. agreed on a buffer Polish State, which would demand that the purely Polish territory now occupied by Russia be added to that occupied by the Germans. It is difficult to imagine Germany allowing the revolutionary Soviet system to be established in Germanoccupied territory. A buffer State, therefore seems to he excluded. It is more likely that the Soviet will carry propaganda to the agreed frontier, whence it is inevitable that it will percolate to German areas. The .Soviet apparently anticipated that a buffer State would have a Fascist character and refused to agree to it.”