WAR UNPOPULAR

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 September 1938, Page 6

WAR UNPOPULAR

NOT DESIRED BY AVERAGE - GERMAN ' NO HOSTILITY TO CZECHS FULL CONFIDENCE NOT FELT IN LEADERS (Recd This Day, 12.50 p.m.) LONDON, September 11. The “Telegraph’s” Berlin correspondent says there is not the slightest doubt that war is most unpopular. There would be literally millions of people in a mood of latent disaffection from the outset. The man in the street in Germany does not desire war and is not even hostile to the Czechs. Germans, apart from the younger Nazis, have not one hundred per cent confidence in their leaders.

NAZI TRUCULENCE

CRITICISM OF DR BENES’S SPEECH VATICAN TRIBUTE TO BRITISH DIPLOMACY (Recd This Day, 1 p.m.) LONDON, September 11. The “Daily Telegraph’s” Nuremberg correspondent says the speech of the Czech President (Dr Benes) is compared by the Nazis to Dr Schuschnigg’s farewell speech in Austria. Because they miss the note of exaggerated nationalism to which they are accustomed from their own leaders, they regard it as weak. The British United Press correspondent says it is reliably reported that Herr Hitler shares this view. The “Telegraph’s” Nuremberg cor-rc.-pondent says Nazi officials refuse to envisage the known distance they will go without bringing on war. The “Telegraph’s” Rome correspondent says Italy apparently shares British and French anxiety, though official sympathies are with Germany, and Herr Henlein’s demands. The “Osservatore Romano” says: “The situation, despite negative elements, encourages optimism. British diplomacy has cleared the air and served the cause of peace.” The Fascist Press dismissed Dr Benes’s broadcast as an harangue in favour of democracies.

TENSION IN NUREMBERG ONLY TOWN IN GERMANY WITH WAR PSYCHOSIS. TWO FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS ASSAULTED. (Recd This Day, 1 p.m.) NUREMBERG, September 11. The feverish temperature of the Party Congress was raised by Field-Marshal Goering's speech and a more truculent attitude to foreigners by the Nazi rank and file is noticeable, with increasing tension. Two foreign correspondents were assaulted by storm troopers for j-jqT giving the Nazi salute during a broadcast of the National Anthem, but it should be emphasised that Nuremberg is the only town in Germany where there is a war psychosis. PRECAUTIONS IN HOLLAND. REINFORCEMENT OF FRONTIER GARRISONS. i Recd This Day, 1.30 p.m.) THE HAGUE, September 11. Dutch frontier garrisons have been reinforced. It is stated that the troops are now sufficient to meet an emergency.

ALONG THE RHINE TROOPS MOVING ON BOTH BANKS. DISORGANISATION OF NORMAL TRAFFIC. (Recd This Day, 1.30 p.m.) COLOGNE, September 11. Troops are moving on both banks of the Rhine all day, disorganising normal passenger traffic. The general impression is that ' troops, especially heavy artillery, are massing on the right bank. FRENCH RESERVISTS THOUSANDS LEAVE PARIS POR FRONTIER. SILENCE THE ONLY SIGN OF ANXIETY. (Recd This Day, 1.30 p.m.) PARIS, September 11. Thousands of reservists have left Paris in special trains for various parts of the frontier. Unusual silence was the only sign of anxiety. PLEBISCITE NOT WANTED. SUDETENS AND VISCOUNT ’ RUNCIMAN. (Recd This Day, 1.50 p.m.) PRAGUE, September 11. Herr Woeliner, a Sudeten German, introduced Viscount Runciman, who surprisingly addressed a cheering crowd of Sudeten Germans outside the castle where he was spending the weekend. Herr Woeliner said: “You are the liberator of millions from persecution. We.no longer have confidence in the promises of the Czechs.” The crowd shouted: “Lord Runciman, save us from the Czechs’ plebiscite.’’ Lord' Runciman declared that he was trying to bridge the gap between the two peoples, in a way to assure peace and satisfaction to all.

The crowd again shouted against a plebiscite.

ASSURANCE WANTED

CZECHS & GREAT BRITAIN. FOLLOWING ON CONCESSIONS. (Recd This Day, 1.50 p.m.) LONDON, September 11. The “Daily Telegraph” says the Czechs have urged on London that they have gone to the limit in concessions in response to demands from London and that therefore they consider that Britain will assume definite responsibilities and ask., what., assurances can be expected. No reply has so far been returned.

OXFORD STREET MARCH. DEMONSTRATION FOR PEACE & AGAINST HITLER. (Recd This Day, 1.50 p.m.) LONDON, September 11. A crowd marched from the Marble Arch along Oxford Street tonight shouting: “We want peace! Death to Hitler!” The police escorted the marchers, who were orderly.