GERMANY AND DANZIG

HITLER'S SETTLEMENT PLAN

MAY BE PUT INTO EFFECT IN FEW DAYS

(By TeleerapH—Press Association—Copy tight.) (Received August 19, 1 p.m.) LONDON, August 18. "It would be as big a disaster for Germany to turn back now as to lose a war," declared one Nazi spokesman, reports the Berlin correspondent of "The Times." The correspondent states that there is reason to believe that Herr Hitler's plan for settlement of the Danzig problem may be put into effect in the next few days. The " Allgemeine Zeitung" says: "We can count on the fingers of both hands how many more days the Poles will be masters of the situation." Official circles in Berlin emphasise that Germany will not forgo any of her demands, whatever the cost. It appears that the British and French attitude is at last appreciated, but too late to enable Germany to back down. The anti-Polish Press and atrocity campaign has increased, but it is not impressing the public, whose attitude is one of worried apathy. The "Warsaw correspondent of "The Times" says that German troop movements are not yet so abnormal as to be concentrations for immediate attack, but the Poles are watchful. Herr Hitler's newspaper, the "Volkischer Beobachter," says that the problems of Danzig and the Polish Corridor are overripe for solution and that every day wasted increases the danger of war. Newspapers in Rome continue to harp on the theme that peace lies in Poland's hands. In London the "World Alliance of Christian Churches has called on the Powers to convene a world conference as the only escape from war and chaos.