REFUSAL OF DEMANDS.
GERMAN RADIO ANNOUNCEMENT BLAME CAST ON BRITAIN. (Received This Day, 11.20 a.m.) LONDON, September 3. The German broadcast announced Britain’s declaration of war by reading, the answer which was allegedly given to London by Berlin: . “The German Government and nation refuse to accept or fulfil the ultimate demands from the British Government.” Germany, it is. 'said, did not intend to destroy Poland but merely sought to rectify. tho_. frontiers,. . Britain mado ; . peaceful revision -■ impossible':' 1 ' Britain was responsible for the Polish terrot against the German minority and the violation-of the--Lan»ig .Statute by Poland. Britain repudiated Signor Mussolini’s peace plan., “We .will reply to each attack with equal Hrms and the same form,” said tho broadcast'.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 276, 4 September 1939, Page 5
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