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POLISH WARNING TO GERMANY AND ITALY.

FIGHT FOR DANZIG.

No Other Way Out, Says o Frank Broadcast. 'V NAZIS MUST DECIDE. frilled Press Associatlon.-Copyright. ißwrtvK] 2 p.m.) WARSAW, .luly 2 n. A statement broadcast in Polish f.rrman and Italian, says: "Poland' d.Hnres simply and openly that she Mill tight for Danzig. There is no other way out for us. ■Tf the occasion comes. J ot , )lp „.,„.,,„ <> '.rneral S n ,igly-K yd/. (CommHnder-in-hief of the Polish »•„,,,,., |, P understood by thoso believing that Oan/.i- can l>,. swindled from Poland. Britain and France have declared H.eir soli.larity with Poland. Lot the rulers of (.crmanV understand that it depends only on their decision whether the battlefields of Kurope will he covered with millions "f dead and wounded, and whether the •JTPatest, ~jfies u j|, ,-.,,, i,, nlinH f(il . (|||() provincial Raltic town. "It is nece«»,,,v to understand that Ihe PolUh policy ,|,,«.s ,„„ i, K .|, l( | ( . !,,„„• Poland has said the |a-t words ihrou-h the ( oiuniMnder-iii-Chief and the Polish political leaders. " The open pian of pro.m-ation concehed in (ierinany attained realisation in Danzig with' the shooting of a frontier guard. The seriousness of the situation has not decreased." fn Berlin, on the contrary, report* are current that Heir Hitler" has worked nut a plan for British and l.ertnan negotiations. Dr. Buerckel. Leajrue Commissioner at Danzig, has left Vienna for the Free City. POLAND WARNED. Germany Not Seeking War, But Does Not Fear It. ARMY CHIEF'S SPEECH. Independent Cnhlo Service. (Received p.m.) BERLIN, .luly 20. Colonel-General von Rrauchitxch. Com-niander-in-Chief of the (Jerrmin Army, speaking at. Tannenberfr. 1.1 miles from Poland, rejected the alleged Polish claims in Kast Prussia and warned Poland: "We are not seeking war but fear it even less. We want to emphasise that this is old land." An earlier message said that he was to-day to address Military Academy cadets touring East Prussia. The tour aims at inspiring the cadets with "the heroic spirit." TYROL POLICY. QUESTIONS IN COMMONS. British Official Wireleen. Rl'(.BY, July 20. The Marquis of Clydesdale asked in the House of Commons whether, in view of the fact that although the South Tyrol is the only plave in Kurope where frontier revision provides a simple solution of a racial problem Heir Hitler apparently prefers settling this problem by a scheme to remove the (ierinan population from their land, steps will lip taken to obtain detailed information regarding this scheme, with a view to the application of similar principles in case of other German demands. The Cnder-Seeretary for Foreign Affairs. Mr. K. A. Butler, replied that Britain's representatives in (Germany and Italy were reporting on developments in the plan dealing with the problem of the South Tyrol, of which full details were not yet available. Britain would hear in mind the possible applicability of these principles to other areas. Lord Clydesdale then asked whether, on the information available to the Foreign Secretary, he thought Herr Hitler would prefer war to settling his demands by n scheme such as that operating in the South Tyrol, and did the Foreijni Secretary also think that Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had initiated a new principle for solving racial problems by negotiation rather than by war; or on the other hand, was he (Lord Clydesdale) to understand that Herr Hitler had, for the sake of expediency, shown himself as treacherous to his own people as he was to Mr. Chamberlain at Munich. Mr. Butler replied: "I think we can all draw conclusions from the actions taken."

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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 170, 21 July 1939, Page 7

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POLISH WARNING TO GERMANY AND ITALY. Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 170, 21 July 1939, Page 7

POLISH WARNING TO GERMANY AND ITALY. Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 170, 21 July 1939, Page 7