HELD TO HAVE ARRIVED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 August 1939, Page 6

HELD TO HAVE ARRIVED

Effects of German - Propaganda

DIFFICULT FOR HITLER TO CHANGE COURSE

WAR THOUGHT INEVITABLE BY POLISH PUBLIC

(By Telegraph.—Press Association—Copyright.)

(Received This Day

1.20 n.m.) LONDON, August 21

“The Times” emphasises the ealm with which the Poles are standing to arms in face of two million Germans on their frontier and adds that most capitals consider that crucial days are ahead and that a major crisis is about to develop, but this can onlv happen in defiance of the clearest warnings. “The Times” Warsaw correspondent, says the week oi decision has arrived. Each day the German propaganda machine hammers out its claims and makes it harder for 1 litJei to change his course, but there are glimmers ot hope that Italian diplomacy may render a conflict avoidable, though the possibility of Vatican intervention is fully excluded. 1 üblie opinion considers that war is inevitable. Housewives are attending first-aid courses. Britons with no special reason to remain are advised to leave within forty-eight houis. The British United Press correspondent in Berlin says thouoh no official advice has been given, it has been hinted to Britons that they should not remain in Germain except on urgent business. A few families, including three journalists, are therefore departing. A Paris message states that following a conference between M. Daladier and Mr Hore-Belisha, Cabinet met twice. President Lebrun will meet the Cabinet.