GERMAN CONTENTION

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 September 1938, Page 7

GERMAN CONTENTION

ONLY SUDETENS & CZECHS AFFECTED RUMOURS OF MOBILISATION DENIED HITLER’S SUPPOSED PLANS LONDON, September 14. The “Daily Telegraph’s” Berlin correspondent says that a German Government spokesman stated today that the crisis was still one directly affecting only the Sudetens and the Czechs. Rumours of partial German mobilisation are categorically denied. It is pointed out that the manoeuvres are still being carried on. Mr Ward Price, the special correspondent of the “Daily Mail,” who is in Munich with Herr Hitler and many foreign officers, says that, should Germany as a last resort deem it necessary to go to the rescue of the Sudetens from their oppression, the German army and air force might be ordered to remain entirely on the defensive, not carrying the war into French territory. He expressed the opinion that France would soon grow weary of carrying out a campaign against Germany’s new western fortifications.

BRITISH NAVY EXERCISES IN NORTH SEA (Recd This Day, 10.58 a.m.) RUGBY, September 14. The ships of the Home Fleet left the Cromarty Firth yesterday for exercises in the North Sea. A flotilla of mine-sweepers, and several auxiliary vessels still remain in Invergordon.

STOCK MARKETS CALM REPORTED IN LONDON. BERLIN BOURSE VERY WEAK. (Recd This Day, 10.40 a.m.) LONDON, September 14. The stock markets are at the mercy of the greatest tension since the crisis began, but behaved with astonishing calmness. The Stock Exchange opened weak and quotations were marked down all round, gilt-edged securities by one to two points, but later recovered slightly. The Berlin bourse is very weak, with Reichsbanks down 4 points. TWO MILLION MEN. AVAILABLE AT SHORT NOTICE IN FRANCE. (Recd This Day, 10 a.m.) LONDON, September 14. Reuter’s Paris correspondent says orders are ready to call up eight classes, totalling nearly two million soldiers, if the need arises. The distribution is beginning tomorrow of sand, which may be used to combat incendiary bombs, as firefighting sand dumps. QUICK DECISIONS. GOEBBELS WARNS EDITORS. (Recd This Day,' 10 a.m.) BERLIN, September 14. Dr Goebbels told Berlin newspaper editors to hold themselves in readiness lest there were quick decisions within the next few days.