DANZIG SHOWDOWN EXPECTED SOON.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 187, 10 August 1939, Page 11

DANZIG SHOWDOWN EXPECTED SOON.

MAY NOT BE WAR.

Nazis Believe Allies Will

Desert Poland.

RUSSIA TO SUPPLY ARMS?

I'nited Press Association.—Copyright.

(Received 11.30 a.m.)

LONDON, August 9

Leave of absence will not be granted to the Polish Armv after August 15 owing to the belief that a showdown is likely, though not necessarily war, says the Associated Press correspondent in Warsaw.

The 1 imes" \\ arsaw correspondent has announced that Polish guards tired on three Germans who crossed the frontier last Sunday, wounding one. The fact that the incident was hushed up for three days indicates the care which the authorities are taking to observe the restraint Britain and France arc urging.

The "Daily Telegraph" Berlin correspondent says that a meeting, at which the Danzig Nazi leader. Herr Foerster. will speak, is to be held to-morrow. Herr Foerster will express wishes of Herr Hitler, who laid down the lines of the speech.

No slackening of tension is noticeable in Berlin, where it is still believed that if the worst comes. Britain and France will not support Poland.

Italy and Germany are understood to have reached "full agreement."

Reports in the German Press of illtreatment of Germans in Poland continue to inflame public sentiment.

A sensation was caused when the "Politika, (iospodarc/a. - ' official organ of the Polish heavy industry, revealed that in the event of war with Germany Poland will receive massive arms deliveries from Russia, states the Independent Cable Service, quoting the "Daily Express."

The paper adds: "On the declaration of war Russia will send all the necessary steel supplies for the Polish war industries, bombing and fighting aeroplanes, tanks, armoured cars and heavy and light artillery."

POISONING WELLS.

G.rowing Menace Of Official

Propagandists. HAfE FOR UNDERSTANDING. t British Official Wireless. (Received 9.30 a.m.) RUGBY, August 9. In the course of the final debates on foreign affairs in both Houses of Parliament before the recess, the Prime Minister, Mr. Chamberlain, and the Foreign Secretary. Viscount Halifax, made it clear that the British Government could not regard the immediate situation, cither in Europe or in the Far East, without anxict}'.

Observers in London agree that the efforts made since March to build up an anti-aggression front have had a considerable effect in discouraging adventures, and therefore are serving the sole purpose for which—as British Statesmen have all along insisted—they were undertaken, namely, the restoration of confidence.

Diplomatic circles in London feel that responsible leaders in all countries realise the importance of preventing the growth of tension.

Lord Halifax drew attention, however, to a source of danger to peace which still cannot be ignored when he told the House of Lords: "The task of statesmen to-day is made doubly difficult by those official propagandists and unofficial journalists and writers who deliberately invent, exaggerate, or distort events and their implications."

Mr. Chamberlain also referred again to the poisoning of the wells of international understanding by hate and fear manufactured by Press distortion and vilification.

PRESSMEN WELCOME.

See Determination Of Germans

To Defend Peace. VIEW OF GOERING (" reived 10.30 a.m.) BERLIN, August 9. The wall in the West keeps watch on the Rhine and the Ruhr, said FieldMarshal Goering, after a long inspection of air defences.

Foreigners should send specii correspondents who were welcome to si everything and note the determinatic of the people to defend peace, under tl conditions the Reich wanted, or tl Fatherland, if others foolishly plunge Europe into wa».