POLAND’S ATTITUDE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 July 1939, Page 6

POLAND’S ATTITUDE

APPRECIATED BY BRITISH GOVERNMENT STATEMENT IN HOUSE OF COMMONS MANY GERMANS ENTERING FREE CITY. EXTENSIVE MILITARY MEASURES (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day. 10.56 a.m.) RUGBY, July 3. The Prime Minister (Mr N. Chamberlain), in the House of Commons, told Dr Hugh Dalton (Lab.), who spoke of the calm courage and selfcontrol being displayed by Poland in face of grave provocation, that Britain much appreciated Poland’s attitude. Mr Chamberlain was answering a question following on a statement on the Danzig position, in which he said:— “Reliable reports indicate that extensive measures of a military character are being carried' out in the Free City. A large and increasing number of German nationals have arrived in the Free City, ostensibly as tourists', and a local defence corps is being formed under the name of Heimwehr. “Poland has received from Germany a notification of a visit by the German cruiser Koenigsberg to Danzig for three days, from August 25. Poland is informing the Danzig Senate that sheMees no objection to this visit. Britain is maintaining close contact with Poland and France regarding developments in the Danzig situation.” Invited by a Labour questioner to inform Herr Hitler personally that any attempt to change the status of Danzig by force would be instantly ' resisted by Britain, the Premier remarked that Britain’s position had been made perfectly clear by Lord Halifax,

SIR N. HENDERSON

RETURNING TO CONSULT HIS DOCTORS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.56 a.m.) RUGBY, July 3. It is stated that Sir N. Henderson (British Ambassador to Germany) is returning to London tomorrow by air to consult his doctors. KOENIGSBERG VISIT INTIMATION BY POLISH GOVERNMENT. CONTROL OVER DANZIG FOREIGN AFFAIRS. (Received This Day, 12.5 p.m.) WARSAW, July 3. Announcing the visit of the cruiser Koenigsberg to Danzig, a Government communique says: “In strict conformity with the Danzig statutes and the Polish right of control over the foreign affairs of Danzig, the Reich Government informed the Polish Government of the intended visit-of the cruiser Koenigsberg to Danzig.” The communique is regarded as having been issued for the purpose of stressing Polish control over the foreign affairs of Danzig. GERMAN DENIAL IN INCREASE IN DANZIG DEFENCE FORCE. ENLARGEMENT OF POLICE FORCE. (Received This Day, 12.5 p.m.) BERLIN, July 3. An authorised Wilhelmstrasse spokesman stated that German had no intention of forcing matters at Danzig and no desire to go against the territorial integrity of Poland. “If we had wanted to let the matter come to military action,” he said, “we could have done so any day.” Referring to a statement by Mr Chamberlain in the House of Commons today, the spokesman denied that any Germans were entering Danzig as tourists, or that Danzig, in increasing its defence force, was breaking treaty obligations. "In 1933,” he said, “the police force was diminished. Now, in tension, it is being enlarged, according to treaty rights.” Asked whether Danzigers were being trained by German officers, he replied: "I have not heard about that.” PAYMENTS STOPPED SERVICE OF FOREIGN LOANS. BLOCKED ACCOUNTS AS IN GERMANY. (Received This Day, 12.5 p.m.) DANZIG, July 3. ; The Bank of Danzig has announced that it is stopping interest payments and amortisation services on all foreign loans to the Free City. Gulden payments to foreign countries will be placed in blocked accounts, as in Germany. Investors receiving certificates on Danzig devisen to banks for amounts due to bondholders in the United States, England and Holland arc principally affected. One explanation given is that the Danzig port no longer brings in the necessary foreign currency.