NAZI ANTICIPATIONS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 September 1939, Page 6

NAZI ANTICIPATIONS

AMERICAN SPECULATIONS POSSIBLE MOVE AGAINST BALKANS. NEW PROBLEM FOR ITALY. (Received This Day, 11.55 a.m.)' NEW YORK, September 7. The Rome correspondent of the “New York Times” says that if Polish resistance collapses, Germany will be free to turn her attention in other directions and it is expected that the Balkans will first feel the weight of the Reich’s new strength, ■ thus touching Italy’s vital interests, and if there is war in that peninsula, Rome could only with difficulty continue her neutrality. On the other hand, there is talk of the Duce mediating after Warsaw is taken, the Germans thinking England and France will abandon Poland, despite the former's denials. It is believed that the Duce will not agree. Italian feeling is that he will lay himself open to a certain rebuff. It must be remembered that Signor Mussolini’s policies in these days are Italian and not German-Ita-lian. GERMAN CAPTURES REPORTED BY HIGH COMMAND. (Received This Day, 12.15 p.m.) NEW YORK, September 7. Berlin messages state that the High Command has reported that 25,000 Polish prisoners have been taken since the invasion of Poland began. Guns to the number of 126, also tanks and armoured cars, as well as an undetermined number of smaller arms, have been captured.