DANZIG CORRIDOR.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 281, 26 November 1932, Page 9

DANZIG CORRIDOR.

EUROPE'S POWDER MAGAZINE.

LONDON, November 21

Poland's future is the most precarious in Europe, says the Berlin correspondent of the "Manchester Guardian," who adds that only her alliance with France and German disarmament stand between her and the destruction that is threatening her both within an& without, and she is bound to act if the alliance is loosened or Germany rearms.

Describing, after a tour of East Prussia, the dangers to peace, the correspondent explains that both the German and the Polish standpoints are untenable.

The Poles declare that the Versailles decisions are immutable, but nevertheless they simultaneously are modifying them in their, own favour. They are systematically oppressing the German minority in the Polish corridor and are fostering their own port of Gdynia, thus involving the destruction of the trade of Dantzig. Meanwhile, the Germans are militarising East Prussia, which, robbed of its natural markets and half surrounded by protectionist Poland, would die without German subsidies.

Nazi propaganda constantly magnifies the menace of a Polish invasion of East Prussia, and emphasises the fact that Konigsberg's defences are obsolete, owing to the Versailles Treaty. Moreover, the authorities have ordered whole towns and villages in Ea*t Prussia to undergo regular gas drill, the people rushing into shelters while German 'planes, purporting to be Polish, perform sham raids.