POLES DETERMINED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 March 1939, Page 5

POLES DETERMINED

COUNTRY MUST BECOME A FORTRESS

ONLY BARRIER TO GERMAN PROGRESS.

ANTI-NAZI DEMONSTRATIONS.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, March 27.

In Warsaw today, a meeting of exservicemen, attended by 7000 delegates, enthusiastically resolved that, as Poland was the only barrier to German progress eastward, they would calmly await the order to march.

They adopted a resolution declaring that the complete union of the whole nation under the President and the army chief was an urgent need. Poland must become a fortress. Every Pole must stand to his post, rifle in hand. The Cultural Union at Katowice adopted a similar resolution. In Teschen, on. the Czech frontier, students and others joined a meeting of housewives and formed a procession of 14,000, which marched through the main street chanting slogans, with flying banners emblazoned: “Poland is not Czechoslovakia. Danzig is not Memel.” SOLID DEFENCE BLOC AMNESTY TO POLITICAL EXILES. MOVE TO UNITE ALL PARTIES. WARSAW, March 27. In an effort to unite all parties in a solid defence bloc, the Government is granting an amnesty to political exiles, of whom the most notable is the Peasant Party leader and former Premier, M. Witos. COLONEL BECK I VISITING LONDON NEXT MONTH. CONVERSATIONS TO BE HELD. (Received This Day, 9.45 a.m.) LONDON, March 27. . Colonel Beck (Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs) will arrive on April 3 as the guest of the Government. Conversations will begin on April 4.