WAR PSYCHOSIS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 152, 30 June 1939, Page 7

WAR PSYCHOSIS.

SOMETHING AFOOT.

Qarmans And Poles Accuse Each Other.

"NAVY WEEK" CLIMAX

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(Received 12.30 p.m.)

LONDON", J,„ie 2f).

Heaters Berlin correspondent savs that news filtering i„ from unofficial sources suggests that something is a toot in Danzig. The situation has changed Cor the worse. It is imposMhle to verify re|K>rts regarding distributions of German troops. The correspondent of the Associated I I'css ot Britain i-t-|Hirts: Danzig Free (it, to-night is guarded hy the "legiti-mately-strengthened police force.-' spite Nazi denials, rumours that a Free Corps is being forme,! and arms and ammunition are being smuggled in. persist. (Jermans and Poles a re'"blaming each other for creating a war psychosis. The Associated Press correspondent Ht Cydnia says that the Poles' "navy week'' has reached its climax, and been trail-formed int.) a political anti-Ger-man demonstration. Polish crowds, taking up the usual Nazi cry, shouted, "We want. Danzig."' This soon became, "We will take Danzig."

NO AID TO PEACE.

German Comment On British Note. DENOUNCED NAVAL TREATY. BKRLI.V, June 29. Herr Hitler's newspaper, the "Volkischer Beohaciiter.'' says: '•The British Note is mi contribution to peace. It merely justifies the cancellation of the naval treaty. Mr. Chamberlain selected the 20th anniversary of tlie Treaty of Versailles to reply to the memorandum, which lie received two months ago. *'ls Britain playing for time, as at .Munich, or wishing to heat down Moscow's demands by hinting at a possible understanding witli Cerinany? 'I'lic last sentence of tlie Note is a piece of impudence. "One looks in vain for a reply to the Fuehrer's speech of April 2K, in which he offered Britain the hand of peace. The Note merely denies encirclement, with meagre words to the contrary. "The cardinal mistake is the attempt to reduce the naval treaty to a mere technical instrument for limiting naval armament. If this is Britain's view, then Germany was cheated in 103.-)."

PRESS DISTORTION.

DEPLORED BT CHAMBERLAIN.

British Official Wireleaa. JUT! BY. June 20. When Mr. C'lui mlierla ill's attention win culled in the House of (ominous at (|iiestioii time to tlie reception given in the German find Italian Press to recent speeches liy himself and t lie Foreign Secretary. Viscount Halifax, explaining British policy, he said: "I have noticed, particularly in the Gerlliau Pre*-;, article.-, di-torting anil sneering at any speeches made hy British statesmen which seek to show understanding of Germany's position. "I cannot hut deplore such attempts to poison the relations between our two countries, but I do not propi.se to make representations to the German Government on the subject."'

NEW MISCHIEF

GERMAN PLANS FOR DANZIG

LONDON, June 2ft. The "Daily Telegraph" says: "If Herr Hitler listened more to wholesome counsel than to Dr. Goebbels he would realise that the British nation was never more in earnest, never more of one mind and never nearer the limits of its patience. He will make a great mistake if he persuades himself that the longsuffering of the British and French democracies is merely the result of degeneracy and cowardice. "War is not yet inevitable, but it hangs on an incalculable hazard —the caprice or obsession of one man." The "Daily Herald" says: "It is clear that Herr Hitler is planning new mischief in Danzig. He is not concerned with a settlement, but is anxious for a new triumph. Danzijr, like Sudetenland, would be merely a stepping stone. Heir Hitler aims at the Polish Corridor, Poznan and Silesia —at the dismemberment of Poland, as he dismembered Czechoslovakia. Such a challenge cannot be avoided a second time by the methods of Munich."