TOO LATE FOR NAZIS TO TURN BACK NOW.

BERLIN STATEMENT. Would Mean Disaster As Big As Losing War. POLAND'S DAYS NUMBERED. Unllpd Press Association.—Copyright. (Received 12 noon.) LONDON*, August 18. "It would be as big a disaster for Germany to turn hack now as to lose n war," declared one Nazi spokesman, reports the Berlin correspondent <>f "The Times," who states that there is reason to believe Herr Hitlers plan lor a settlement <>L' Danzig may lie put. into effect in the next lew days. Tlir ".\ll<ri>iiii-iin> ZeiUinjj" snvs; "We inn count mi tlie fin^r ( . ls ~f i,.,, 1( | s how many more days the Poles will be masters of the situation.'' Ollieiul circles emphasise that Clcrmany will not t'orjro ntiy of her demands whatever tile cost. It appears that the British and French attitude has at last lieappreciated, hut it is too late to enable (iermany to hack down. Tho anti-Polish Press atrocity campaign has increased, hut is not impressing the public, whose attitude is that of worried apathy. "The Times" Warsaw representative sa.vs (iernian troop movements are not yet so abnormal as to he concentrations for an immediate attack, but the Poles are watchful. The "Voelkiseher Beobachter'' says the Danzig Corridor problem is over-ripe for solution. Every day wasted increases the danger of war. The Herman news agency says that 4401 (Icrmun refugees from Poland have been accommodated in camps, across the frontier. The total number of refugees since the beginning of August is 76,535, most of whom have been given work. The Danzig Nazi leader, Herr Foerster, handed Danzig's new army its colours, a swastika surmounted with a deaths-head. Thousands watched the parade of 1500 men with machine and anti-tank guns. Herr Foerster said that Danzig was able to protect herself and no longer needed a note in writing from the League of Nations. |