TIME LIMIT SET.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 274, 1 September 1939, Page 5

TIME LIMIT SET.

EXPIRY MIDNIGHT YESTERDAY. REGARDED I AS REJECTED. NO PLENIPOTENTIARY ATTENDS. (Received This Day, 1.40 p.m.) LONDON, August 31. The German proposals were made subject to a time limit that expired at midnight yesterday. An essential condition was that a Polish plenipotentiary abie to reach a final agreement should go to Berlin yesterday. The Polish Ambassador attended at the Foreign Office, but said he . had no power to negotiate. Thus as the conditions were not fulfilled Germany decided that the proposals had been rejected. IF POLAND DOES NOT YIELD. . * GERMANY WILL SEEK SOVIET AID. MILITARY CO-OPERATION. (Received This Day, 9.10 a.m.) BERLIN, August 31. Hints emanating from the Wilhemstrasse are; that if Poland does not yield some degree of military co-opera-tion with the Soviet will he sought. _ Herr Foerster (leader of the Nazis in Danzig) has left the capital. REFUSAL OF A MISSION. POLAND'S DETERMINATION. NO YIELDING OF CORRIDOR. (Received This D'av, 12.55 a.m.) WARSAW, August 31. A spokesman said that Poland refused to send a mission to Berlin to talk with Herr Hitler. The spokesman re-emphasised Poland’s determination to keep Danzig and the fPblish Corridor. He added that Herr Hitler insists on Poland yielding Danzig and the Corridor as a preliminary to negotiations.