NAZI CONFIDENCE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20024, 24 August 1939, Page 6

NAZI CONFIDENCE

QUICK SOLUTION HITLER INFORMS NATIONS VITAL EIGHTS STRESSED BRITAIN SHAPING COURSE FIRMNESS APPRECIATED fElec. Tol. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. Aug. 24, 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, Aug. 23.

The Berlin correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain reports that Herr Hitler yesterday dispatched' couriers to most of the Governments of -Europe, setting out Germany’s position- and relations with Ithe Danzig Corridor. -Official circles in Berlin: are confident that the 'trouble will be over within 48 hours.

Facing -criucal hours, Europe is awaiting the outcome of to-day's German. and . British diplomatic exchanges and- the elucidation- from Moscow of fhe effect of -the proposed German-Soviet -pact on the threePower 'talks. In an -atmosphere highly charged with -d-apgerous potentialities, the statement to be made in the House of Commons tomorrow by the Prime Minister, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, and Lord Halifax's broadcast iru the evening will shape Britain’s course of events in the next few days. Official quarters do not confirm- the report 'that Mr. .Chamberlain -received a memorandum from Herr Hitler that Danzig was no affair of Britain’s. The British- Ambassador to Germany, 'Sir Nevile Henderson, had a brief interview with Herr Hitler at Berchtesgaden and! returned to Salzburg whence -he departed by air for Berlin.

It is reliably stated in Berlin that Herr Hitler told Sir Nevile Henderson that Germany would not permit the British guarantee to affect her vital rights and claims. A communique issued at Berchtesgaden states that in compliance with the wish of the British Government the Fuehrer received Sir Nevile Henderson, who handed him a letter from Mr. Chamberlain phrased on the same lines at last night’s Cabinet statement. The Fuehrer left Sir Nevile Henderson in no doubt that the obligations which Britain had undertaken could not cause Germany to renounce the pursuance of her national and vital interests. The Home Office has- instructed the local authorities to take the necessary steps to ensure that street lighting can be extinguished -at any time necessary. The Ulster Government has -urgently appealed (to local bodies to perfect the air raid precautions organisation in view of the international situation. A Warsaw message states that the British firmness is appreciated in Poland and there is a complete absence of panic. The cafes and restaurants' arc filled' and -there is every confidence in the adequacy of the anti-aircraft defences.

Trains from Germany -are -crowded with Britisn -and French subjects and other foreigners.