TESTING GERMANY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 August 1939, Page 6

TESTING GERMANY

ON MINORITIES PROBLEM POLAND OFFERS EXCHANGE. LIBERATION OR AGGRESSION. (Received This Day, 10.55 a.m.) WARSAW, August 29. The official “Gazeta Poiska” makes a sensational offer to Germany to gradually exchange mutual minorities, consisting of 750,000 Germans in Poland for 1,500,000 Poles in Germany. It is feit here if Germany rejects the offer and proclaims a war of liberation for the German minority, it would definitely prove that the Reich aimed at aggression and imperialism. “PURE INVENTIONS” STORIES OF ATROCITIES IN POLAND. SOLEMN PROTEST MADE BY GOVERNMENT. (Received This Day. 10.55 a.m.) WARSAW, August 29. An official communique says the Government is obliged to protest solemnly against the German Government using untrue information in their diplomatic gamble regarding the alleged terrorisation of the German minority, which is deliberately used to mislead international opinion and for ■ eign governments. While the germ of the calumnies was restricted to newspaper propaganda, the Poles were content to issue denials. Given exact information, anyone of good faith enough could ask for such information, but for some time past allegations which were pure inventions had been included in statements from the highest German circles which probably had been tendentiously informed. The communique adds that mendacious statements that twenty-four Germans were murdered at Lodz, eight at Bielsko and other atrocities were pure inventions. GERMANS IN POLAND ‘ ORDERED TO REGISTER FOR SERVICE. ANNEXATION ANTICIPATED. (Received This Day, 10.50 a.m.) WARSAW, August 29. It is reported from Danzig that many local Germans have been ordered to apply to military registration offices in certain Polish towns on various dates between September 10 and 15. The Danzig police told inquirers: “In fact these towns are still Polish, but on the date fixed in the order they will belong to Germany.” MORE RESERVISTS MOBILISED IN POLAND. 1 REPLY TO OCCUPATION OF SLOVAKIA (Received This Day. 10.50 a.m.) WARSAW. August 29. I Poland has molibised additional | classes of reservists as a counter-move to the reported German occupation of Slovakia yesterday. GERMANS IN SLOVAKIA INVITED BY PREMIER. HOSTILITY TO POLAND. (Received This Day, 12.25 p.m.) BRATISLAVA. August 29. German troops entered Slovakia at the request of the Premier. The Slovaks have always been, hostile to Poland, more especially since the Munich agreement. GERMANY’S GRIP SINISTER WARNING GIVEN TO CZECHS. ANTI-SEMITIC MEASURES , INTENSIFIED. (Received This Day, 12.25 p.m.) ' LONDON, August 29. The Prague correspondent of “The Times” says Czechs have been warned that an anti-German attitude will bring heavy damage to Czech life. Anti-Semitic measures have been intensified. SOCIAL DEMOCRATS ARRESTED IN VIENNA. (Received This Day, 12.25 p.m.) LONDON, August 29. “The Times” Vienna correspondent states that a number of Social Democrats have been arrested owing to their hostility towards Nazi warlike activities.