NERVES IN BERLIN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 August 1938, Page 8

NERVES IN BERLIN

PRESS ATTITUDE TOWARDS BRITAIN UNDERTONE OF BITTER RESENTMENT TENSION MUCH INCREASED By Telegraph—Press Association. Copyright. (Recd This Day, noon) BERLIN, August 29. An undertone of bitter resentment against Britain is reminiscent of the Press attitude after the crisis of May 21, and suggests that Sir John Simon s declaration was well-timed. The nervous tension has increased enormously during the last forty-eight hours, and even those cut off from foreign newspapers are realising that the anti-Czech campaign has reached a pitch at which some decision is inevitable. HITLER’S TOUR INSPECTION OF FRONTIER ' FORTIFICATIONS EXTRAORDINARY SECRECY OBSERVED (Recd This Day, 11.55 a.m.) LONDON, August 29. The “Telegraph” says Herr Hitler’s all day tour extended ninety miles along the banks of the Rhine in a neighbourhood where important fortifications, are being constructed. The inspection was marked by extraordinary secrecy. All telephone calls from London were intercepted at the German end, and subscribers were given a variety of excuses. ITALIAN ALLEGATION DEMOCRACIES ACCUSED PANICKY AND ALARMIST WEEK (Recd This Day, Noon). ROME, August 29. “La Trfbuna,” observing that Sir John Simon’s speech closed the most panicky and alarmist week in recent diplomatic history, declared that the German manoeuvres and the Home Fleet exercises in the North Sea have been used by . the democracies to suggest that the crisis had reached a fatal point, everything being done to spread an impression that war was imminent. REPORTED BRITISH NOTE INVITING GERMANY TO JOIN IN PEACE EFFORTS. PROPOSED CONFERENCE IN PRAGUE. (Reed This Day, 1.45 p.m.) LONDON, August 29. The “Daily Mail” says Britain is sending a Note to Berlin expressing the hope that Germany will join in peace efforts and also indicating Britain’s attitude in the event of war. The Prague correspondent of the British United Press says Lord Runciman is developing a plan for a round table conference and meetings simultaneously of members of the Henlein Party and the Government, in the hope of a more rapid straightening out of differences. It is authoritatively stated that the Henleinists’ conception of a settlement envisages local self-government on the lines of Irish independence. The canton system is most unpopular among the party chiefs.