POSITION UNCHANGED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 September 1939, Page 8

POSITION UNCHANGED

RUSSO-GERMAN BOGY ' - I BRITISH POLICY UPHELD. REJECTION OF “PEACE” OFFER. (Received This Day, 11.40 a.m.) LONDON, September 29. Highly-placed circles comment on the new Russian-German bogy that it does not change the war position or Britain’s policy to redeem Europe from recurrent aggression. The Paris correspondent of the Associated Press of America states that the French Government has officially indicated that it will reject the Rus-sian-German peace terms. RIBBENTROP SUMS UP POINTS OF AGREEMENT. (Received This Day, 11.40 a.m.) MOSCOW, September 29. Before leaving by air, Herr von Ribbentrop <Nazi Foreign Minister) said the following points had been settled: (1) Russian-German friendship had been finally established. (2) Russia and Germany would not allow any further interference with Eastern European questions. (3) Both nations desired the reestablishment of peace and that Britain and France should give up completely their futile and hopeless struggle against Germany. (4) Should British and French, warmongers prevail, Russia and Germany knew how to meet such a situation. PACT PARTNERS BIG INCREASE IN TRADE PROPOSED. PROPAGANDA IN INVADED TERRITORY. (Received This Day, 11.45 a.m.) LONDON September 29. The British United Press Moscow correspondent says the economic aspect of the agreement is understood to provide for increasing total trade to a hundred million sterling annually, which was its level two years before Hitler's advent, but nearly ten times the total provided in last month's agreement. The Moscow wireless states that leaflets embodying the Nazi-Soviet agreement have been scattered from the air in the Russian area of Poland, stating that the agreement ends the Polish nobles' exploitation and oppression of White Russians and Ukrainians, who can face a future full of happiness and justice.