GERMANY NOT TRUSTED

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

GERMANY NOT TRUSTED

TOO MANY PROMISES BROKEN BANKRUPTCY OF POLICY OF FORCE MENACE TO SECURITY AND INDEPENDENCE (Official Wireless) (Received -September 12, 1 p.m.) RUGBY, Sept. 11 A Ministry of Information bulletin states that official circles consider that Field Marshal Goering’s speech revealed the bankruptcy of the German policy. Herr Hitler made many promises to foreign countries, but none has been kept. Therefore it is not surprising that no confidence is placed in any assurance he may give and Britain is justified in requiring that peace should he concluded with a German Government whose word may lie trusted. The German Government has also misled the German people, who were promised “peace and honour.” They have not got peace, because the German Government deliberately pursues a policy of violence which made the war inevitable. They have not got honour, because the world recognises the crudity and falseness of the German Government charges against Poland. Germany’s “sickening technique,” as the Prime Minister called it, has become too familiar. There is no country in Europe which does not regard the present German Govevrnment as pursuing a dishonourable policy, which is a menace to the security and independence of all. Britain is fighting for a return to decency in international relations. Until this is achieved no country is safe. Germany may say that she has no aims in the west, but the tale of limited German territorial ambitions has been told too often to inspire the slightest confidence. Britain does not desire another Versailles, as Field Marshal Goering falsely alleges, nor the collapse of Germany, but a just and enduring peace with an honourable German Government.

ONLY THE BEGINNING WAR AGAINBT HITLERISM REPLY TO GOERING'S OUTBURST DETERMINATION OF BRITAIN Limej Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyrnrin j (Received Sept. 12, 11 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 11 The Daily Telegraph, commenting editorially on Field Marshal Goering’s speech, says:— “When the German armies violated Belgium in 1914 their leaders counted on a short war. Field Marshal Goering has told the unfortunate German people that Herr Hitler’s campaign for the destruction of Poland will not last more than four weeks. That boast was given a withering answer in the hour it was uttered by the announcement of the British War Cabinet that its policy was being framed and plans made for a war which may last three years or longer. “Whatever successes Herr Hit-, ler's perfidy and desperate haste may win in Poland and the wild exaggerations with which Field Marshal Goering thinks it necessary to advertise them suggest uncomfortable disappointment, all the world now : knows that they will be only the beginning of a struggle to which Nazism has challenged civilisation and into which the British people will throw all their strength.” CURATE JOINS UP CONSIDERED IT HIS DUTY FIGHT GERMAN AGGRRESSION (United Press Assn. —Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received Sept. 12, 12.25 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 11 Rev. Kenneth Stephens, a curate near Stoke-on-Trent, has joined the Army as a combatant, because he feels it his duty to light German aggression. He said: "1 am a young man, with no family ties, and consider that as the country is in need of rnan-power 1 should offer my services." INCREASE IN FREIGHTS RISE OF 50 PER CENT. CANCELLATION OF CONTRACTS (United Press Assn.—Elec, Tel. Copyrlftlt) (Received Sept. 12, 11.20 a.m.) AMSTERDAM, Sept. 11 The Freight Conference announces (lie cancelling of ail contracts during September. Cargoes booked before September 7 may be rebuuked at the old rates. Tlic new bookings rates are an increase of 50 per cent. At present, however, there is no space available.

FIGHT AGAINST WAR GERMAN INDEPENDENT SOCIALISTS MESSAGE TO BRITISH LABOUR (Official Wireiess) (Received Sept. 12, 1 p.m.) RUGBY, Sept. 11 The German Independent Socialists have smuggled a message to the Independent Labour Party, in which It is stated that, despite the ruthless surveilliance of the Gestapo, fortification workers have distributed a pamphlet urging a fight against Herr Hitler r policy of aggression and war.” SENT TO GAOL ARDENT PACIFIST AND IDEALIST RUBBER BALLS IN STREET iUnited Press Assn.—F.lec. Tel. Copyright) (‘Received Sept. 12, 11.15 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 11 Lawrence Hislam, clerk, aged 30 years, was sentenced to one month's hard labour for throwing rubber balls in Downing Street on August 28. It was stated that Hislam is an ardent pacifist and ideaJist. He tendered an apology. WALKED OFF SHIP APPEAL BEFORE COURT BOUND OVER FOR YEAR (Unitew press Assn. —Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received Sept. 12, 1 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 11 The Essex Quarter Sessions heard the appeal of 23 seamen of the Napier Star and allowed their discharge, conditional on their being bound over for a year. Others have already been called up in the naval reserve. On August 3 42 members of the crew of the Napier Star appeared at the East Ham Police Court on charges of failing to obey lawful commands, combining to disobey lawful commands and combining to impede the progress of the ship from Port Elizabeth on May 1 while on a voyage to New Zealand. Mr Glenn Craske, who prosecuted on behalf of the Blue Star Line, said the men's actions were little short of mutiny. They all walked off because they wanted different food, which was tantamount to holding the ship up to ransom. RESCRVIBTS CALLED UP MANNING THE FRONTIERS United Press Assn.— Eleo Tel. Copyrigrtw, LONDON, Sept. 11 The Bucharest correspondent of the Daily Mail says the Government ha* issued a decree calling up 150,000 reservists. They will be concentrated on the Polish and Hungarian frontier**