ANOTHER NAZI VERSION EXPOSED

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20067, 13 October 1939, Page 11

ANOTHER NAZI VERSION EXPOSED

ATTEMPT TO CAST BLAME ON POLES alleged suppression of details STORY OF REPAIRING INJUSTICES . (British Official Wireless.) Reed. 2.50 p.m. RUGBY, Oct. 11. In connection with Germany’s efforts to explain away the German aggression upon Poland by ascribing to 1 olancl responsibility for various incidents leading up to the German invasion, the German wireless yesterday contained a Jong statement purporting to give proof that Poland delibera e y misled Britain and France by suppressing information about Herr Hitler’s demands of which Poland was already aware. This argument to-day found its Way into German agency messages which, at the same .time, represent the Nazi demands from last October onward as moderate and solely aiming at repairing alleged injustices. The truth is that the concessions required by Herr Hitler were regarded by Poland as inconsistent with her sovereign rights, and this and the fact that Herr Hitler had demanded certain territorial concessions was well known in London and Paris. The question as to the precise moment at which the fullextent and details of the. Nazi extractions were communicated to Britain and France becomes, therefore, of purely academic interest. What is really important, and what has been publicly stated more than once and—it is very significant to observe—is admitted in this latest Nazi propaganda, is that the German demands had betel definitely rejected by I oland some time before Poland even knew that Britain had any intention of offering Poland a guarantee.