AT ALL COSTS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20021, 21 August 1939, Page 7

AT ALL COSTS

GERMAN DEMANDS DANZIG FUTURE CANNOT TURN BACK RISK OF WAR DISASTER ANGLO -FRENCHI ATTITUDE APPRECIATION TOO LATE (Elec. To). Copyright—Unitod Press Assn.) (Reed. Aug. 19, 2.30 p.m.) LONDON, Aug. 18. The Berlin correspondent of The Times says that, according to one Nazi spokesman, it would be as big a disaster to Germany to turn back now as to lose a war. There is reason Co believe that Herr Hitler’s plan for a settlement of the Danzig question may be put into effect in the next few days.

The Allgemeine Zeitung says: “We can count on the fingers of the hands how many more days the Poles wilt be masters of the situation.”

Official circles in Berlin emphasise that Germany will not forgo any demands, whatever the cost.

It appears that the British and French attitude is at last appreciated, but too late to enable Germany to back down. The anti-Polish atrocity campaign lias increased in the Gorman press, but is not impressing the public, whose attitude is one of worried apathy. The Warsaw correspondent of The Times Says that the German troop movements are not yet so abnormal as to be concentrations for immediate attack, but the Poles are watchful. At Danzig to-day the Nazi leader, •Herr Foerster, handed to Danzig’s new army the colours and swastika surmounted by a deaths head. Thousands watched the parade of 1500 men machine and anti-tank guns. Herr Foerster said that Danzig was able to protect herself and no longer needed to write notes to the League of Nations.