ON WESTERN FRONT.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 276, 4 September 1939, Page 5

ON WESTERN FRONT.

HITLER’S MESSAGE TO THE ARMY STRENGTH OF FORTIFICATIONS. SHORT WAR IN EAST PREDICTED (Received This Day, 10.20 a.tn.) ‘ BERLIN, September 3. The British Government let its mask fall and proclaimed war on a threadbare pretext,” declared Herr Hitler, in a message to the German Army on the Western.' Front* He:; proceeds: “Britain, driven on by" those warmongers whom we knew in the last war, has done this despite the fact that Germany made no demands against any State westward of the Reich and despite.,....Germany’s offer of a cordial unders.tandih'g, even friendship.. ;. ... Heii* Hitler irepeated the allegation that* British protection led to Polish aggression, and added: “I am determined to blow up this ring which has been laid round Germany.”

Claiming success of the Army anti Air Force against Polish attacks, Herr Hitler declared that their eastern comrades expect her soldiers on the Western Front to protect the Reich, and referred to the Siegfried fortifications as a hundred times stronger than the Western Front in the Great War, which were never conquered, “If you do your duty the battle in the east will have reached a successful conclusion in a few months. Then the power of the whole Nazi State stands behind you. J, as an old soldier of the World War, and your supreme commander, am going to the Arnly in the East.’ “I know that God will favour us with victory, as right and justice are on our side.”