GERMAN BOAST

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 251, 27 October 1939, Page 3

GERMAN BOAST

END IN VICTORY NEW ORDIKG IN EAST AMPLE LIVING SPACE RETURN OF COLONIES “NO A l ORE DEMANDS” LONDON, Oct. 25. “Germany- takes up the British challenge. The end can only be a decisive German victory,” said the German Foreign Minister, Herr von Ribbomtrop. during his speech before the Nazi rally at Danzig yesterday. The Nazi Minister spoke for an hour and a quarter. Ho declared that the new order in the east gave Germany colonising space for generations. Then, lie said, with the exception of the return of colonies, to which every great Power was entitled, Germany had) lie demands on Fiance and Britain. British “Ferfidi«s” He detailed the Biftish “perfidies,” including the 1915 Italian agreement ; secondly, promises to the Arabs last year;. thirdly, non-payment of war debts to America ; fourthly, promises of Dominion status to India; and finally, the agreement between Herr Hitler and the British Prime Minister, Air. Neville Chamberlain, in 1938 in which Mr. Chamberlain promised not to make war cm Germany. Berlin messages state that the German press harps on the theme that Britain rejected the Fuehrer’s “magnanimous and unselfish offer to preserve. the British Empire, but Britain wanted to keep Europe divided, because it would be easier to dominate it. just as British envy persecuted Japan.”

“BOMBS ON ENGLAND’’ NEXT NAZI. AMBITION BERLIN PRESS VIEW LONDON, Oct. 25. A Berlin message- states that Herr Hitler had a long conference with the ■German commander in chief, General von Brausehit-seh, General Keitel and other high military experts. Marshal Goering’s National Zeitung states: “Germany’s next step' will he to shower bombs on England. The moment lias come when, tlio kind of war England diesired must reign.” A. further Berlin message states that the German press generally suggests that Herr vom Ribbentrop’s speech means war to the death with (England. The Boersen Zeitung says: “From now everything depends, not upon diplomatic manoeuvres, but- on the strength of weapons alone.” A Paris message states that- a German loudspeaker lorry, broadcasting propaganda on the Western Ifront, approached a French outpost repeating: “'Germany does not want to-fight F ranee.” A burst of machine-gun fire smashed the apparatus' and the crew hurriedly retired. Copenhagen reports quote the opinion of the Danish paper National Tidlende t 0 the effect- that Herr von Ribbentrop’s speech showed that the German attack' would he directed against the British Empire alone. The National Tidende adds: “The Reich does not lmto France and would gladly make peace with her, but does not think that peace will come until Britain is -knocked out. We must he prepared for unexpected actions in unexpected places,”