MESSAGE TO HITLER

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 September 1939, Page 5

MESSAGE TO HITLER

FROM CANADIAN PREMIER. FORMAL ACKNOWLEDGMENT. LONDON, August 30. Herr Hitler has. merely acknowledged through the German Consul-Gener-al his receipt of the message from the Canadian Prime Minister, Mr Mackenzie King, states a report from New York. The Ottawa correspondent of the “New York Times” comments: “Why Mr Mackenzie King alone among the heads of the British Empire dispatched three peace exhortations has puzzled Canadians. Many now think he followed President Roosevelt’s example to indicate North American solidarity.” OCEAN PATROL BRITISH WARSHIPS IN SOUTH ATLANTIC. WATCH ON GERMAN LINERS. RIO DE JANEIRO, August 31. It is believed that the entire Atlantic coast below the equator ris being patrolled by British warships. A number of Italian arid German ships are sheltering in Latin-American ports. The British cruiser Ajax followed the new Polish liner Schrobry when she put to sea last night. A vessel believed to be the German liner Antonio Defino put in to Bahia without her flag and funnel and with her superstructure painted black and the name blacked out. She is now anchored in the middle of the bay. San Jose (Costa Rica) reports that the German Consulate has Issued a statement advising German residents of their obligations to defend the Nazi point of view and also to be ready for service if the Reich calls. STATE OF SUSPENSE? ANGLO-GERMAN NEGOTIATIONS. CONJECTURE IN LONDON. (Received This Day, 9.25 a.m.) LONDON, .August 31. The Berlin correspondent of the British United Press says it is stated that the British Ambassador, Sir Nevile Henderson, was fully informed of the German attitude to the British Note; consequently no reply is expected and the British-German diplomatic e? • changes are now in a state of susperr ANOTHER VERSION. SERIES OF QUESTIONS PUT TO HITLER. (Received This Day, 9.25 a.m.) LONDON, August 31. The Associated Press of Great Britain correspondent in Berlin says that, according to the Wilhelmstrasse, the last British Note was not a reply to Herr Hitler’s, but a series of questions to which he was replying.