NAZI MIGHT

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20039, 11 September 1939, Page 5

NAZI MIGHT

GOERING’S BOAST CRUSHING POLAND END IN TWO WEEKS "LESSON TO OTHERS" DEFIANCE TO ALLIES SNEERS FOE BRITAIN' (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. Sept. 11, 9.30 a.m.) BERLIN, Sept. 9. Speaking to workers at an antiaircraft factory, Marshal Goering, the Nazi Air Minister, said: “The proper place to address the German nation is amid anti-aircraft guns, which are the backbone of our defence.” Assailing the British as hypocrites who were deluding the world with moral slogans, Marshal Goering said: ■‘lt is inconceivable that anybody should ever break through the West Wall. The German sea coast is protected sufficiently. The English Grand Fleet cannot penetrate for two reasons. First, it is menaced by underwater craft, and secondly, our powerful air force.”

Marshal Goering continued: “Three 'iron rings' now enclose the Poles and, according to my latest reports, the Polish Army in the Radom area is beginning to surrender, giving up thousands of arms. There has never been such a Tannenburg in war history.. What is left of the Polish Army can no longer escape.

“Within a few days the remainder of the arrogant Polish Army will be taken prisoner. We hope that 14 days after the beginning of the main job, Poland will be finished and the last mopping-up job will be carried out within a few weeks. The German sharp sword will beat all. I hope Poland’s example will be a good lesson for others. • Divisions For Western Front “After Poland, 70 divisions will be brought to the Western Front. The same applies to our air force and air defence. “England thought she could attack our harbours during the Polish campaign. She tried it once and lost half of the squadron. Their claim that a German battleship was hit is incorrect. It was hit by a falling British plane.

"If they still try leaflet flights, I do not object. Should they change leaflets to bombs, then retaliation will follow at the same moment and with the same effectiveness shown by our air force in Poland. “After Poland is crushed, the eastern border threat is ended, but 'he difficulty has always been in fighting on two fronts. This is solved. It the enemy now attacks on one front, we shall strike back with all our force." British Interest in Poland Marshal Goering said that the British reason for entering the war was nothing but “nonsensical chatter.” Sureiy, he declared, Britain should have said the German demands against Poland were just and urged her to give way quickly. “But the Poles are of as little interest to Britain as the Turks,” he continued "There is nothing more important to Britain than herself. “She lies to-day in stating that she must go to war against brute force. The British nation dares to say this, despite the fact that it has been built up by the naked oppression of innumerable nations and races.

“They s'aid that Germany is mortally vulnerable m the economic, internal, and political spheres. When I started the four-year plan, my object was to form a protection that could not be beaten. To-day, I can say that Germany is the best armed State in the world. No power commands such munitions as we do. No other Power has such experts and united workers. We possess all we need to defeat our enemies.

“The enemy asserts That a long wai will weaken us, but it will make us stronger. We certainly must be prepared for a hard time, but we are unbeatable if we remain united. We can promise Britain that 1918 will never be repeated." Germany’s Will To Peace

Addressing his remarks to Mr. Neville Chamberlain, Marshal Goering said: "You cannot doubt the will to peace of the German people. It is great and deep. We are ready for peace. It rests with you. Will you give the world life or death? Then give it. We will accept the offer, but never again shall there be a Versailles.

“The prospect of a blockade is different from the last war when we were surrounded on every side by enemies. In the north they cannot blockade us because they will run against neutrality agreements, while in the east we have no enemy. If the British assert that we do not have the raw materials, they cannot assert that 'he Russians have not got them. We are not sufficiently shut in. “In the south, too, wc still have Rumania, Yugoslavia and other countries. They remain neutral because 'hev are sensible. If they dared to attack, they would quickly learn what it meant to touch Germany. 11

"The British can, therefore, cut us off only from America with whom the statistics show that our trade is pith able in any event. Want Nothing From France

“We want nothing from the French, Wc shall defend our frontiers like iron, but shall not attack. If we are attacked, we shall hit back."

After declaring that it was a lie that Poland did not receive the German demands before the war, and Mint Herr Hitler was seriously upset at having to go to war, Marshal Gocr:ng added: “We do not want war. We want nothing from France, whose frontiers we guaranteed forever.

“If the French Premier, M. Dala'lier. does not believe that, it bis his affair. We do not want to shoot

Frenchmen. We do not want to conquer Britain and France. We want peace.

•‘The chatter about the attack on the violence of Nazism means nothing to us, but do not confuse offers of peace with weakness. II you want peace, you can have it, Mr. Chamberlain.

•‘The Fuehrer has ordered that open towns must not be bombed. _ I have even refrained from attacking the most important military objectives because they are too close to towns. Wc have given our word that we will not kill peaceful people unnecessarily, but if people think they can do that to us, there will be terrible consequences.”