SITUATION IN EUROPE

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 227, 30 August 1939, Page 3

SITUATION IN EUROPE

GBAVE FEAR OF WAR IMPERIALISM with mask off BRITAIN STILL PRESSING FOR -v PHACE REPLY 'JO HITLER, CARRIED PARLIAMENT TO REASSEMBLE LONDON, Aug. 28. The Cabinet sat for 50 minutes. No further meeting was arranged. Jt is understood that .the reply to Herr Hitler was finally approved. Thy Dominions Secretary. Sir Thomas Inskip, informed the Dominion High Commissioners as to the trend of Britain’s reply to Herr Hitler. iK'arly callers at Number Ten Downing Street to-day included the foreign Secretary. Viscount Halifax, the Ambassador to Germany, Sir Neville Hendeison, and then the Rumanian and French Ambassadors. Sir Neville Henderson left by air at 4.2 b p.m. for Berlin where ho arrived at 8411 p.m. It is officially announced that the British Parliament is. to reassemble on Tuesday. The Prime Minister, Air. Neville Chamberlain, is to make a statement on the international situation in the House of Commons. The House is to meet at 1.45 p.m. The King gave an audience to Air. Chamberlain at 5.3 b p.m. yesterday. The British United Press Berlin representative sa>s it is claimed that Germany’s military preparations have been completed and all units are at the war stations. Warsaw messages state that the Polish press, for the first time admits tlm possibility of war. ft describes tlm German attitude as imperialism with the mask off and declares that Biitain will not agree to new -Munich. The Polish press says that Germany has lost the war of nerves. The Polish. Foreign Office has presented all foreign correspondents in Warsaw with, gas masks, commenting: “You may need them.” Throe incidents are regarded in Warsaw as aggravating tin’ situation. . I he first was the arrest of two Polish Customs officers in Danzig. 'The second was the threatening position of the •German cruiser Schleswig Holstein, unci' the third was the reported mobilisation of the German forces in Fast Prussia. Tlie Polish Government .spokesman commenting on the atrocity propaganda. declared: “Me are powerless against this sort el tiling and must protest- against tliei lack of information or misrepresentation of the German Ministers. ” Messages from Home state that tlie Italian press is pessimistic and forecasts an unfavourable British reply to Herr Hitler. The Italian press holds Britain responsible for war or peace. The Baltic States are stated to he apprehensive of Germany’s intentions. All inquiries in diplomatic circles lor reaffirmation of neutrality guarantees, similar to those of Belgium, Holland, and Switzerland are meeting with evasive replies. A Moscow message states that M. Naggiar. the French Ambassador, is returning to Paris by air. The British Official Wireless Servicereports that British opinion remains firm and resolute behind the Government. There lias been no wavering in anv quarter and the press assumes that to-day’s reply to> Herr Hitler will confirm again Britain’s undertaking to Poland, which would be honoured with all her armed forces immediately an attack < n vital interests was resisted by Poland.