GERMANS IN POLAND

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 August 1939, Page 5

GERMANS IN POLAND

MALTREATMENT IN SOME CASES. BRAGGING AND THREATS RESENTED. (Independent Cable Service.) (Received This Day, 9.35 a.m.) WARSAW. August 17. Official circles say that German reports of arrests and maltreatment of German minority residents are exaggerated, although they admit maltreatment in cases where minority Germans bragged about Germany or threatened Poland. , GERMAN MOVE ANTICIPATED BY BRITISH WRITER.EAST EUROPEAN VERSION OF LOCARNO. LONDON. August 16. In a North American Newspaper Alliance article. Sir Arthur Willert. discussing the possibility of a totalitarian move to give Herr Hitler his window-dressing while saving Poland from the fate of Czechoslovakia, mentions a suggestion of which he says more will be heard, for an East European version of the Locarno Treaty, under which Poland will be assured of assistance by the great Powers, if any signatory attacks her. Poland, says the writer feels strong enough to allow the Statute of Danzig to be so altered as to enable Herr Hitler to proclaim that it safeguarded Germans from Polish domination. The chief difficulty here, as in 1925, is the inclusion of Russia.

Referring to the German assumption that Britain’s lack of hardness of will is exemplified by the surrender of the four Chinese in Tientsin. Sir Arthur Willert says that London is nerving itself for a violent crisis and that word has gone to the appropriate authorities to be prepared for anything.