LENGTH OF WAR

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20907, 12 September 1939, Page 7

LENGTH OF WAR

BRITAIN’S PREPAREDNESS NAZIS’ GREAT BLUNDER THE WORLD NOT MISLED (Official Wireless} (Received September 12, 11 a.m.) IRUGBY, September 11 The significance of the War Cabinet's decision to prepare for three years or more of war continues to engage the attention of the newspapers. To the Times it appears as meaning:! “In the first place the Nazi political strategy has wholly failed. This strategy, of which traces appeared in Field Marshal Goering's clumsy and rather uneasy broadcast on Saturday, was aimed at gulling the Western Powers into a dishonourable peace after the consummation of the crime against Poland. “But Nazi Germany in 1939 has been guilty of the same blunder as the Kaiser's Germany in 1914. In the words of the late Lord Oxford, the ‘capital blunder’ o-f the Germans then was to ask themselves: ‘Gould any nation, least of all the cold, calculating, phlegmatic and egotistic British nation, embark upon a costly and bloody contest from which it had nothing in the way of profit to expect?’ “They forgot that we had something at stake which cannot be translated into what one of our poets called ‘the lore of nicely-calculated less or more.’ They have forgotten it again. And by the same wishful thinking they have given the same answer to the same misguided question.” Britain’s Readiness for War The Times also makes the point: “The prudent but not pessimistic decision means that the plans prepared for organising the national effort during the war will be put into operation complete and without delay. It is no exaggeration to say that on comparison with 1914 these plans have advanced our readiness for war by between one and two years.” SOVIET ACTIVE CONCENTRATION ON FRONTIER MANY POLISH REFUGEES LIKELY AS MANY AS 1,000,000 (United Preet A««n.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received Sept, 12, 11 a.m.) MOSCOW, Sept. 11 The Pravda dald that Russia Is concentrating troops on the western frontier, as a protection against Polish soldiers who may attempt to retreat over the border. The partial mobilisation Is due to the expectation of disarming and interning as many as 1,000,000 Poles. AMERICAN EMBARGO SOME MODIFICATION EXPECTED EFFECT ON STOCK MARKETS (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received Sept. 12, ll a.m.) NEW YORK, Sept. 11 Steels have established a new high gain ranging to a dozen points, due to anticipation of a modification of the embargo on shipments to belligerents, carrying industrials generally to round the best average for a year. THE ARMS EMBARGO VITAL MATTER FOR AMERICA APPEAL FOR FAIR DISIMSSION ■ United Press. Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received Sept. 12, 12.55 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 Senator Borah, in appealing for fair and open discussion on public questions in the United States in wartime, indicated an attempt by the Opposition to rush the repeal of the arms embargo. lie asserted that the repeal would bring the United States into the war, therefore its opponent were not compromising. IGNORANT GERMANS DID NOT KNOW OF WAR United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) LONDON, Sept. 10 German prisoners captured at Warsaw stated, according to a British Broadcasting Corporation broadcast, that they did not know that France * and Britain had declared war against Germany.