NAZI SUBJUGATION OF POLISH ZONE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20094, 14 November 1939, Page 11

NAZI SUBJUGATION OF POLISH ZONE

HELOTS UNDER GERMAN MASTER RACE (Elec. Tel. Copyright. —United Press Assn.) (Reed. Nov. 13, 2.50 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 12. A message from Helsinki states that the Finnish Foreign Minister, M. Erkko, has announced that the Soviet-Finnish talks in Moscow have reached a state of deadlock, and the Finnish delegation is returning in a day or two. The Moscow press in increasingly threatening and declares that Finland is “playing dangerously,” and that the Soviet will “find ways ot getting what is necessary.”

A French official communique stated that raids on various points of the Western Front took place during the night. Locally some attempts to gain ground by the enemy were repulsed during the day.

A communique issued in Berlin by the German High Command states that the Germans claim to have repulsed a French attempt, with the support of artillery, to capture heights near Pirmascns, the Germans taking a number of prisoners.

The Berlin correspondent of the New York Times, quotingofficial pronouncements in the Warsehauer Zeitung, the new German-language newspaper for the whole of the rump of Poland, comments that apparently the programme of reconstruction and Germanisation, aiming at reducing the Poles to a helot class working under the German master race, will be extended to the rump of Poland. Moreover the largest part of German’s share of Poland is being annexed. The new border is likely to include nearly twice as much Polisli territory as was taken from Germany by the Versailles Treaty, leaving Poland only the districts of Cracow, Kielce, Radom and "Warsaw, while the district of Lublin becomes a Jewish reservation for all Polo-German Jews.