CALM IN WARSAW

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20023, 23 August 1939, Page 7

CALM IN WARSAW

STAND TO ARMS ./ CRUCIAL DAYS AHEAD GERMAN PROPAGANDA STILL GLIMMER OF HOPE ITALIAN DIPLOMACY (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Recd 1 , Aug. 22, 3 p.m.) LONDON, Aug ; 21. The Times emphasises the calm with which the Poles are standing to arms.in the face of 2,000,000 Germans on the frontier and 1 adds, that most capitals consider crucial days are ahead and a/ majoV crisis is about to develop, but this can only happen in defiance of the clearest of warnings. The Warsaw correspondent of The Times says that the week of decision: has arrived. Each day the German propaganda 1 machine hammers out its claims and makes it harder for Herr Hitler to change his course, but there are glimmers of hope that Italian diplomacy may render a conflict avoidable, though the possibility of Vatican intervention is fully excluded and the public considers' war is inevitable. Housewives in Poland are quietly accumulating foodstuffs. Citizens- are attending first-aid courses. Britons with no special reason to remain in Poland' have been advised to leave within 48 hours. The British United Press correspondent at Berlin says that though no official advice has been given, it has been hinted to Britons that they should not remain in Germany, except on. urgent business. A few families, including three journalists, are, therefore, departing.