NAZI NOTE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 238, 8 October 1936, Page 7

NAZI NOTE.

DANZIG PROBLEM. Indignation at League Council Action. BERLIN-INSPIRED ATTITUDE. United Tress Association. —Copyright. LONDON, October £ A message from Danzig states that Herr Greiser, president of the Danzig Senate, has sent a Note to Geneva protesting against the Council's decision to request the Polish Government to assume the responsibility for finding a solution of the problems of Danzig. This action was taken, Herr Greiser complains, in the absence of the Danzig delegation and, therefore, was one-sided, He declares that such procedure does not accord with that which countries usually extend in international relations.

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The "Yorposten," the Nazis' Danzig organ, accuses the Council of impoliteness. It says: "We are not kaffirs, but the Government of a sovereign State." The paper ignores the fact that Herr Greiser refused in advance to send a representative to Geneva. The Berlin correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" says Herr Greiser's policy undoubtedly is inspired by the German Foreign Office because it is no secret that Danzig is administered and controlled from Berlin. The Berlin "Borsen Zeitung" describes the League Council's decision as a disguised attempt to disturb the good relations between Germany and Poland. It adds: "The only result will be to remove, in German eyes, the last vestige of a belief in the League's ability to reform itself." NAZI "WAR GAMES." AMAZING PROGRESS REVEALED LONDON, October 1. For the : first time since the war British journalists attended the German military and aerial manoeuvres which were held, in the presence of Herr Hitler, near Bad Naulieim, in Upper Hesse. They were the most extensive operations held since 1914. Every part of the new German Army was brought into action, but chief interest centred on the tank and other mechanised units co-operating with the air arm and anti-aircraft batteries. Amazing progress has apparently been made in the past 12 months. The publicity and stage management suggest that the manoeuvres may be regarded as a demonstration to the world of Germany's prowess and also as an encouraging spectacle for the German people, rather than the usual problem exercises. Major-General Temperley, military correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph," refers particularly to the work of a composite unit of great mobility and power, consisting of two companies of infantry in lorries or mounted on motor, cycles, an anti-tank company, a light mortar company, a machine-gun company, and an armoured car company. "I cannot imagine a more suitable mation for the protection of a division on the march and for the rapid occupation of tactical points ahead of the main body," he says. "It is a tribute to the progressive thinking of the German General Staff."