NO CONFERENCE ON DANZIG COMPROMISE.

HAZI CUE.

German And Polish Press On Question Of Honour.

ITALY PREFERS PEACE.

United Press Association.—Copyright.

(Received 10.30 a.m.)

LONDON, August 16

Herr Hitler discussed the latest 1 ?L, the Eur °pean situation with Field-Marshal Goering and Herr Himmler at Berchtesgaden. "No conference compromise about Danzig," is tho cue given leader writers in the German Press, consequently their columns hid filled with phrases about Germany's honour, which it now appears would be involved if the Reich en me to the council table.

'lie ordinary German Is told that German honour is at stake. The Poles similarly have been worked up. Consequently, it is difficult to see how everybody's "honour" is to be satisfied.

The Italian Press appears to be more concerned with saving peace than with saving honour, but the newspapers, with a unanimity that can only be inspired, insist on direct ficrmaii-Polish negotiations as the only way of solving the problem.

The Pope maintains an active interest in the international situation, but it is stated that reports that His Holiness is arbitrating arc ridiculous.

Dr. Burckhardt, League Commissioner in Danzig, stated that Polish-Danziger conversations opened in a friendly atmosphere. Nazi legal experts will confer with Danzig leaders at Zoppot for the whole of next week, Herr Foerster presiding. The object is to prove the justice of Germany's attitude on East European questions.

The president of the Danzig Nazi Senate, Herr Arthur Greiser, and M. Chodacki, Polish Commissioner in Danzig, conferred, after which M. Chodacki returned to Warsaw.

The Nazi journal, "Vorposten," says it is a dangerous error to assume that Germany is weakening. The Salzburg talks between Count Ciano and Herr von Ribbentrop meant that the Axis is absolutely determined on a quick solution of the Danzig question. There is no room for an inorganic compromise.

"Zwoelf Uhrblatt" (Berlin), editorially, flatly denies the possibility of an international conference. "We have no need of a conference to establish our rights to Danzig," the paper says. "The belief that at least the Corridor question can be solved by compromise is as laughable as it is absurd. The Corridor lias become unbearable and untenable in Eastern Europe."

FINAL ARBITER.

Poland Must Decide If And

When To Act.

GLOOMY FEELING IN FRANCE.

(Received 12.50 p.m.)

LONDON, August 16.

President Moscicki, reviewing Legionaries at Vilna, in a message said: "Our armed forces will offer impenetrable resistanco to all attempts at pressure and intimidation."

French political quarters are inclined to gloom as they state that If Poland is threatened and decides to act Britain and France must immediately assist her. They emphasise that Poland is the final arbiter.

BRITISH CULTURE.

Aiding Relations With Foreign

Countries.

OVERSEAS EXHIBITIONS.

(Received 10 a.m.)

RUGBY, August 16.

The British Council for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, which had been responsible for exhibitions in Venice, New York, San Francisco, Warsaw, Helsingfors and Stockholm, will organise and install an exhibition in Bucharest in January. The council of art and industries of the Board of Trade will, through a sub-committee, select the exhibits.

In the same month the foundation •tone will be laid of the British Institute of Bucharest, on a site presented by the King of Rumania, which will provide a lecture hall,_ reading rooms and classrooms for pupils studying the English language. There are siniilar Institutes in Paris, Florence and Athens.

ZERO HOUR SUNDAY.

AMERICAN SENATOR'S VIEW.

OSLO, August 10.

Senator Hamilton Fish, head of the United States delegation to the International Parliamentary Conference, which opens here to-day, is convinced t' it war is inevitable unless there is a speedy armistice. He fixes xero hour for Sunday, but believes • conference of the British, French, Italian and German Foreign Ministers could avert war indefinitely.