CALM COURAGE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 155, 4 July 1939, Page 11

CALM COURAGE.

POLAND'S PATIENCE.

British Appreciation Of

Self-Control.

GERMAN CRUISER'S VISIT.

British Official Wireless. ! (Received 12 noon.) RUGBY, July 3. Speaking in the House of Com!"u iIS \ the Prime Minister, Mr Chamberlain, told Mr. Hugh Dalton (Lab.), who spoke of the calm courage and self-control being displayed by I oland in the face of grave provocation, that Britain much appreciated Poland's attitude. Mr. Chamberlain was answering a question following a statement on "the Danzig position, in which he said: "Reliable reports indicate that extensive measures of a military character are being carried out in the Free Citv. Large and increasing numbers of "German nationals recently arrived, in the Free City, ostensibly as t. mists, and a local defence corps is being formed under the name of the Heiinu eiir. "Poland has received from Germany notification of a visit bv the German cruiser Koenigsberg to Dan/.'- for three days from August 20. Poland N informing the Danzig Senate that .-lie -ees no objection to this visit. Britain is maintaining close contact with Polai: 1 and France regarding developments ia the Danzig situation." Invited by a Labour questioner to inform Heir Hitler personally that any attempt to change the status of Danzig by force would instantly be resisted by Britain, the Prime Minister remarked that Britain's position had been made perfectly clear by the Foreign Secretary. Viscount Halifax. He stated that Sir Xevile Henderson, British Ambassador to Germany, would be returning to London to-morrow by air to consult his doctors.