ACTION BY POLAND

Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 August 1939, Page 7

ACTION BY POLAND

FOLLOWING ON GERMAN AGGRESSION MORE RESERVISTS CALLED UP. GOVERNMENT STILL READY TO NEGOTIATE. (Received This Day, 9.25 a.m.) WARSAW. August 30. Poland has called up an undisclosed reservists. A radio announcement declared that: “German aggressions on the frontier, provocations in Danzig and the occupation of Slovakia have created a threat to Poland, necessitating new measures in order to complete the defence system. It should be pointed out that the Government’s peaceful policy is unchanged. Poland is ready for negotiations.” The correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain says posters, the first of their kind, declared that the President had ordered a general mobilisation, in addition to the requisitioning of transport. Official quarters explained that this affected about 500.000 men, which is only a quarter of the general mobilisation. The British United Press Warsaw representative says the classes affected are trained reservists under 40 years of age and other ranks under 35. They are to report within three days. GULF OF DANZIG MINED SHIPS WARNED TO USE PILOTS. (Received This Day, 9.50 a.m.) WARSAW, August 31. The army is now almost completely mobilised. ' It is estimated than 1,800,000 men are under arms. A Government broadcast, however, emphasised that Poland is still prepared to settle the conflict of opinions by peaceful methods and is ready for conciliation. A wireless message warned shipping to use pilots approaching the Gulf of Danzig. It assumed that the Poles have been mining'tt. DEFIANT POSTERS DISPLAYED IN WARSAW. “FORCE MUST BE MET WITH FORCE.” (Independent Cable Service.) (Received This Day, 10.47 a.m.) WARSAW, August 30. Large posters have appeared throughout the city: “Force must be met by force. We will not surrender our territory. The invader will be defeated.” TERROR IN DANZIG POPULATION BECOMING UNNERVED. ALLEGATIONS BY POLES. LONDON, August 30. The Warsaw correspondent of “The Times” says that Polish reports declare the Danzig population is becoming unnerved. Danzig shipyards have allegedly dismissed Poles without notice. The Poles also allege that Danzigers have been ordered to report for service between September 10 and 15 in Polish territory. Field headquarters have been established at Gootswalde, nine miles from Danzig. Travellers report that the air field in the East Prussian town of Elbing is crowded with aeroplanes and has been closed to the public.

EXTREME DEPRESSION

RULING IN GERMANY ACCORDING TO SWISS REPORT. ALLEGATIONS OF MILITARY MUTINIES. (Independent Cable Service.) (Received This Day, 10.47 a.m.) BASLE. August 30. Information reaching here reveals an extreme depression of public opinion in Germany and even stated that some German garrison regiments have mutinied. Workers are agitating for the release of their comrades from concentration camps. Many shops are closing in towns and villages. GERMAN CLAIMS DANZIG & THE CORRIDOR. POLES STOP INTERNATIONAL TRAIN. (Independent Cable Service.) (Received This Day, 10.47 a.m.) BERLIN. August 30. The “Frankfurter Zeitung” says the German demand for Danzig and the Corridor is an indispensable prerequisite of all efforts aiming at a solid basis of European peace. It is claimed that Poland has violated the German-Polish Treaty of 1929 by stopping a privileged express train from Danzig to Berlin at the Corridor frontier. HUNGARIAN DOUBTS REPORTS OF WEAKENING IN GERMANY. POSSIBLE MODIFICATION OF DEMANDS. (Received This Day, 10.47 a.m.) BUDAPEST, August 30. For the first time in many months, the censorship has been relaxed sufficiently for the newspapers to express clear doubts regarding Germany’s firmness in the face of British warnings. Both a Government paper and a Catholic organ report “a sensational weakening of Germany’s demands” and the possibility that Germany would be content if the Danzig corridor were put under international control by the Great Powers.

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