BRITAIN'S EMPHATIC WARNING TO GERMANY.

CHANGE DANZIG.

Threat To Poland Would Mean Conflagration. PREMIER'S NOTABLE SPEECH. British Offlclnl Wireless. (Rri-plreil yj.'Mi p mi.l Kl <;BV. May 11. Thp declaration that there was onlv nnp, danger of wm- in Knrope, and that, whs if the impression should <rpt about that Britain and France wpre, not in earnest «nd could not be rrlied upon |~ carry out their pledges, was a notable feature in a -pppch In women Conservatives in the Albert, HmII by Mr. Xcville Chamberloin.

The Prime Minister s,ii,| that, no •rreatcr unci m> more deadly mistake cniild lip made unload than to lie misled by such an impression, and in reference to Danzig he added emphatically that if an attempt were made to change the Mtiiatioii there by force, in such a way us to threaten Polish independence, that would inevitably start a general conflasrratioii in which Britain would be invnlvprl.

In another nllnsion to the international fitiiatinn Mr. Chamberlain said that British people hud settled down in a mood of firm and fixed resolve, confident in their strength and clear in their consciences that their (iiivci iiiuent had done nrid was doing all that men could do to preserve peace, and convinced of the right unci unselfishness of their aims.

He added that Britain was as ready an ever to listen to the views of others, hut was determined not to submit to dictation, It had never been Britain's wish to isolate or encircle Germany, nor to stand in the way of her natural and legitimate trade expansion.

Neither in armaments nor in economics did Britain de«ire to enter into unbridled competition with Germany. Britain would not refuse to discuss with Uprmany measures for an increase of trade or improvement of economic conditions provided only that Britain could have unmistakable signs from Germany of a desire to restore the confidence which had been so severely shaken.

Mr. Chamberlain repudiated the suggestion that the basis of the naval treaty between Britain and Germany had been removed as Herr Hitler had attempted to claim by a change in the British attitude towards Germany.

Speaking of the great burden of armaments which lay upon the world, the Prime Minister observed that if only the world could get n respite from intertin tional tension «nd from anxiety regarding war they could look confidently forward to great expansion of trade and prosperity from which not one, but every people in the world would benefit.