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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 September 1939, Page 6

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HITLER ABUSES BRITISH GOVERNMENT ADDRESS TO WESTERN ARMY. HOPES OF SPEEDY SUCCESS IN EAST. (Received This Day, 11.45 a.m.) BERLIN, September 3. “The British Government has let its mask fall and proclaimed war on a threadbare pretext,” declared Herr Hitler, in a message to the German army on the Western front. He then proceeds: “Britain has been driven on by those warmongers whom we knew in the last war and has done this despite the fact that Germany made no demands against any State westward of the Reich and despite Germany’s offer of cordial understanding and even friendship.” Herr Hitler repeated the allegation that British protection led to Polish aggression and went on: “I am determined to blow up this ring which has been laid round Germany.” ’ Claiming success by the German Army and air force against Polish attacks, Herr Hitler declares that their eastern comrades expect soldiers on the Western front to protect the Reich and refers to the Siegfried fortifications as a hundred times stronger than the Western front in the Great War, which was never conquered. He continued: “If you do your duty, the battle in the East will have reached a successful conclusion in a few months’ time. The power of the whole Nazi State stands behind you. I, as an old'soldier of the world war and your supreme commander, am going to the Army in the East.”

“I know that God will favour us with victory,” Herr Hitler concluded, “as right and justice’are on our side.”