FEARS IN BERLIN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 August 1938, Page 5

FEARS IN BERLIN

WHOLESALE DREAD OF WAR EXTENT OF MANOEUVRES CAUSES ALARM. NO DESIRE FOR MILITARY ADVENTURE. By Telegraph—Press Association. Copyright. LONDON, Aug. 16. Reuter’s Berlin correspondent states that the public is becoming alarmed at the extent of the manoeuvres and that the widespread apprehension may fairly be attributed to a wholesale dread of war. It cannot be denied that the Germans have no desire for a military adventure. This ' and the knowledge that the Government can act without consulting the nation, have resulted in a feeling of helplessness. NOTHING YET HAPPENED LITTLE NEWS OF' MANOEUVRES IN GERMANY BERLIN, August 16. Foreign correspondents here are sending thousands of words concerning the army manoeuvres, but the fact that Herr Hitler received the German trans-Atlantic flyers during the review at Juterbog today is the only military news in the German morning papers. The official spokesman, explaining the silence, said that nothing had yet happened in the manoeuvres, which were still in the initial stages. The troops had either camped or were in barracks.

FRENCH OFFICER’S MISSION. HOPES OF AIR AGREEMENT PARIS, August 16. Significance is attached here to the departure for Berlin of General Vuillemin, 'Chief of Air Staff, to confer with Marshal Goering. It is believed that the visit may be the prelude to a Franco-German agreement to limit their air forces.

ONLY A REMINDER? VIEWS OF DIPLOMATISTS. MORE TALK ABOUT “CZECH HORROR." (Recd This Day, 9.45 a.m.) LONDON, August 16. The “Daily Telegraph’s” Berlin correspondent says the extent of the manoeuvres has impressed diplomatic circles, but the impression is growing that they are intended as a reminder of military power rather than as an active threat. The policy of presenting the “Czech horror” is continued daily in the newspapers under such banner headings as: “Another bestial attempt to murder,” “the Czech terror marches On.” The “Volkischer Beobachter” describes what apparently was a schoolboys’ fight as a new and violent act of terror.

REASSURING TALK, FRENCH AIR CHIEF’S VISIT WELCOMED. (Recd This Day, 9.45 a.m.) BERLIN, August 16. The German newspapers acclaim the arrival here of General Vuillemin, the French Air Chief, as reassuring, and declare that the object of the German manoeuvres is peaceful, like those of other countries, on which Germany has not adversely commented.