ANOTHER MESSAGE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20030, 31 August 1939, Page 5

ANOTHER MESSAGE

Whitehall Note To Hitler WIDER EUROPEAN SETTLEMENT Endorsement ot Principle Indicated BETTER IMPRESSION IN CAPITALS Nazi Press Easing Anglo-French Hostility ■ (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. Aug. 31, 11 a.m.) LONDON, Aug. 30. The British Cabinet met at 10.30 a.m. and broke up at 12 noon. No further Cabinet meeting- had then been arranged and no communique was issued. Tim Dominion High Commissioners called on Number 10 Downing' Street prior to the meeting of the Cabinet. The chief Government. Whip, Captain H. D. K. Margesson visited Number 10 Downing Street several times before the Cabinet met. There is a possibility that Parliament may be resummoned to-morrow to receive, reports of the latest developments.

The King and the Duke of Gloucester privately visited the War Office and the Air Ministry and inspected the arrangements.

The Press Association says that authoritative quarters anticipated that a further reply to Herr Hitler would be dispatched to-day. It will be such that a further communication from ITerr Hitler is likely. ITerr Hitler’s earlier message to Britain consisted of three and a-half typed foolscap pages.

' Subsequently it was officially announced that a British 1 note in reply to Herr Hitler had been dispatched to Berlin to-night through the normal diplomatic channels. France and Poland have been informed of the nature of it.

Berlin reports say that it is becoming apparent that Herr Hitler has accepted “in principle” the British suggestion for a wider European settlement than the Danzig and Polish Corridor issues. It is assumed that Herr Hitler reiterated his Danzig and Polish Corridor demands with emphasis on a new Anglo-German understanding. Herr Hitler apparently is ready to agree to the immediate application of the selfdetermination principle ,to Danzig and the Polish Corridor through a plebiscite. The entire Berlin press carries inspired articles referring to 1918, the Lansing note and President Wilson’s 14 points. It also declares that the '‘'maintenance of the wrongs by Versailles is not within the scope of the Western,Powers.”

' ’ While Europe waits the outcome of these fateful hours the calmer tone of the Italian and German press has created a better impression in London and Paris. French newspapers give prominence to Italian comment favourable to France. Much importance is attached to references to France’s "commendable calm” in the notoriously anti-French L’Avoro Fascista. Signor Mussolini is believed to have written an article in the Popolo d’ltalia advocating the scrapping of the Versailles Treaty as the first step towards the banishment of Europe’s war fears. The German papers to-day ceased their attacks against France and Britain, but the assaults against Poland were undiminished.

A statement broadcast in English by the Bonn' radio station fo-day said that Berlin expected fire negotiations to last for at least two more days.

It is officially denied in Warsaw that Poland informed Britain that any further concentration of German troops would require Poland to invoke the Anglo-French guarantee. It is repeated in Warsaw that the situation in Slovakia is now grave, but it is. denied in an official Polish communique that Poland yet feels her independence is definitely threatened.