TROUBLE BREWING

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 393, 30 November 1932, Page 7

TROUBLE BREWING

POLAND CONSIDERED PRESENT DANGER SPOT OF EUROPE. London, Saturday. Poland's future is the most precarious in Europe, .says the Berlin correspondent of the Manchester Guardian, who adds that only her allianee with France and German disarmament stand between between, her and the destruetion that is threatening her both within and without, and she. is hound to act if the allianee is loosened or Germany re-arms. Describing, after a tour of East Prussia, the dangers 'to peace, the correspondent explains that both the German, and the Polish standpoints are untenable. - The Poles declare that the Versailles decisions are immutable but nevertheless they simultaneously are modifying them in their own favour. They are systematically oppressing the German minority in the Polish corridor and; are fostering their own port of Gdynia, thus involving the destruetion of the trade of Dantzig. Meanwhile, th'e Germans are militarising East Prussia, which, robbed of its natural markets and half surrounded by protectionist ■ Poland would die without German subsidies. Nazi propaganda constantly magnifies the/ menace of a Polish invasion of East Prussia and emphasises the fact that Konigsberg's defences 'are oboslete, owing to the Versalles Treaty. Moreover, the authorities have ordered whole towns and villages in East Prussia to undergo regular -gas drill, the people rushing into shelters while German 'planes, purporting to he. Polish, perform sham raids.