RIBBENTROP’S VIEW

Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 August 1939, Page 5

RIBBENTROP’S VIEW

EVERYTHING FOR GERMANY HITLER AND STALIN DECIDE TO BE FRIENDS. TURNING POINT IN HISTORY. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 10 a.m.) BERLIN, August 24. Herr von Ribbentrop, broadcasting, said: "Everything for Germany. The Fuehrer mastered a previous crisis and will master this one." The German news agency quotes Herr von Ribbentrop as saying: “Herr Hitler and M. Stalin have decided to be friends. The pact will prove a firm foundation, on which Russia and Germany will build in close co-operation. This is one of the most important turning points in the history of the two peoples. I am convinced that the pact will have a favourable effect on RussoJapanese and German-Japanese relations.” I NEW REGIME ESTABLISHED BY DECREE IN DANZIG FOERSTER APPOINTED PREMIER. BRITISH CONSUL DEPARTS. By Telegraph--Press Association—Copyv;.’. i LONDON. August 24. A message from Berlin states that the appointment of Herr Foerster as State President of Danzig was made effective from yesterday. It was interpreted by the Government spokesman as “the establishment of =-n authoritarian regime under Herr Hitler.” From Danzig it is reported that the British Consul’left early this morning. The Polish-German negotiations designed to settle the Customs problems have been broken off. A decree places the Danzig gestapo under the direction of the Senate President. as a result of which it becomes a separate organisation. The first determined Nazi move to oust the Poles from Danzig is indicated by a Warsaw communique reporting taht the Danzig secret police have-ar-rested a number of Polish railway officials in the past 24 hours and have also begun large-scale arrests of Polish civilians. GERMAN TRAINING SHIP ANCHORING OFF DANZIG. (Received This Day, 9.40 a.m.) DANZIG. August 24. It is officially announced that the German navy's training ship Schleswig Holstein will anchor at Danzig tomorrow at 8 a.m. HINT OF WAR GERMAN TRADE ADVICE TO TURKEY. (Received This Day. 10 a.m.) JNSTANBUL. August 24. German authorities have advised Turkish exporters to dispatch before Tuesday all goods destined for Germany as all goods will be refused after then. It is feared that this is tantamount to a hint that war is imminent. Italians have already withdrawn all goods from the customs and Germans have ceased buying.