REACHED BY ITALY AND GERMANY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 August 1939, Page 5

REACHED BY ITALY AND GERMANY

Regarding Action in Event of War CIANO WARMLY WELCOMED BY HITLER SCREAMING PRESS ATTACKS ON POLAND (By Telegraph.—Press Association—Copyright.) BERLIN, August 12. Herr Hitler today warmly welcomed the Italian Foreign Minister, Count Ciano, as he stepped from bis car. at Beichtesgaden accompanied by the German Foreign Minister, Herr von Ribbentrop. Herren Hitler and Ribbentrop and Count Ciano have completed a three-hour conversation. Complete agieement is reported Io have been reached regarding action in the event of war. . . . The Berlin Press is increasingly menacing’ and urges Britain not to leave the fate of Europe in the hands of Polish irresponsibles. The Press opened the floodgates of anti-Polish propaganda and released all the atrocity stories stored up for months. It also provided unmistakeable evidence of Germany s aggressive intentions. Tvpieal of Ihe screaming attacks, Lhr Blatt that the Polish megalomania, which has unleashed an anti-Geiman persecution, has already started the war, before which the democracies tremble. ’'Die newspaper, alleges 204 attacks against Germans in five weeks. . _ The “Voelkischer Beobachter” significantly says that it is absolutely unprecedented that a great nation should tolerate foreign control of the communications between two parts of its country. Poland’s behaviour is only contributing to havingthis question examined with real seriousness. The “National Zeitung” says that Germany hitherto has not published the full brutality of the Polish terror, believing that Poland’s chauvinistic running amok would subside, but the British and French backing has turned Poland’s head.