BERLIN TENSION

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20013, 11 August 1939, Page 7

BERLIN TENSION

DANZIG TREND NAZI LEADER TO SPEAK GOERING’S PEACE TALES REBUFF IN BELGRADE EXCHANGES WITH ITALY (Bloc. TVI. Coi'.yr:"!: t —United Press Assn. J (Reed. Aug. 10, 2.45 p.m.) LONDON, Aug. The Berlin correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says that a meeting at which the Nazi leader in Danzig, Herr Foerster, is to speak to-mo.c-a \v, is being . held at the express desire of Herr Hitler who has laid down tiie lines of the speech. Herr Foerster returned to Danzig by air from Offer Salsburg to-day. No slackening of tension is noticeable in Berlin where it is stiff believed that if the worst comes England and France will not support Poland. Italy and Germany are understood in Berlin to have reached “full agreement.” Reports in the German press of the ill-treatment of Germans in Poland continue to inflame sentimoni. “The wall ‘in the west keeps watch on the Rhine and the Ruhr,” said Lhc German Air Minister, . FieldMarshal Goering, in Berlin to-day, after a long tour of inspection cf the air defences. “Foreigners should send special correspondents who would be welcome to see everythin;; and to note the determination of the people to defend peace under conditions the Reich wanted or the Fatherland if others foolishly plunge Europe into war.” Shots on Frontier The Warsaw correspondent of The Times says it. is anounced that Polish guards tired on three Germans who crossed the frontier on Sunday last, wounding one. The fact that the incident was hushed up for • three days indicates the care- which the authorities arc observing and the restraint that England and France are urging. ■ The Polish Customs inspector, Jan Lipinski, who was reported on Monday to have been sentenced in Danzig to goal for 18 months for insulting Ilerr Hitler and Dr. Goebbcls, has been freed in exchange for a Danzig customs officer whom the Poles had imprisoned. The Warsaw correspondent- of the

Associated Press of Great Britain says that leave of absence will not be granted in tiie Polish army niter August 15, owing to the belief that a show-down is likely though it may not necessarily mean war. Optimism in France The Paris correspondent of the British United Press says that the decision of the French Premier, M. Daladier, to prolong his holiday confirms the impression in Paris that the Danzig situation is not expected to become acute. A Belgrade message states Huff the Yugoslavian • Prime Minister will fly to Venice to-morrow. It is stated that the visit has no political significance. The Belgrade correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain says it is learned on the highest authority that Yugoslavia has refused Italian and German demands for benevolent neutrality in the event of war, including the use by the Axis Powers of railways, raw materials, foodstuffs and the right to cross Yugoslavian territory to Rumania and Bulgaria. Hungarian Attitude

The Budapest correspondent of The Times says that the Hungarian Prime Minister, Count Telcki, in a healed reply to Nazi heckling, declared that the anti-Hungarian propaganda, from whatever source, would be met with most energetic counter measures. Count Teleki. attacked the Nazi press as “wholly irresponsible and written in a manner fit only for illiterates.” The Hungarian War Minister, M. Bartha, defended a Jewish firm which the Nazis accused of supplying defective gas masks. It is reported from Rome that while Signor Mussolini conferred with the Duke of Aosta on African defence matters, King Victor Emmanuel too!: the salute at a review of troops at Turin. lie held a long conversation with General -Haider,’ the head of the German military mission, while bombers roared overhead. The extent of the mechanisation of the Italian army was demonstrated by the fact that not n .single infantryman passed in an hour, out of a threc-liour march past. It is understood in Rome, that the Italian Foreign Minister, Count Ciano, may shortlv vbit Berlin to confer regarding Germany s Danzig proposals.