LEFT TO HITLER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 189, 12 August 1939, Page 9

LEFT TO HITLER.

NEXT DANZIG MOVE.

British Reception Of Foerster

Speech Annoys.

USUAL WILD LANGUAGE.

British Official Wireless.

(Received 12 noon.)

RUGBY, August 11

British Press comment on Herr Foerster's speech at Danzig notes that while the speech was phrased in the accustomed language of violence calculated to further inflame tension, it does not in itself announce a new stage in the crisis.

The "Daily Telegraph" says: "As might be expected it leaves the next word with Herr Hitler, of whose voice Herr Foerster is regarded as the echo. Not until Herr Hitler chooses to speak shall we know what is the meaning of the phrases in which Herr Foerster proclaims that the hour of liberation is at hand, that Danzig will again return to the Reich, and promises that there will be obedience on the part of Danzigers to every order that the Fuehrer gives.

"Much of part of the speech casts the whole of the blame for the present situation upon the Poles and is a transparent travesty of recent history of the Free City.

"At this critical moment there is on Herr Foerster's part no attempt to emulate the restraint which Marshal Smigly-Rydz exhibited on Sunday. That, however, was scarcely to be expected from our knowledge of the manner in which the campaign in Danzig has been conducted, and of the sources from which it derived its inspiration.

"It is left to Herr Hitler to show Europe the inner meaning of these oratorical phrases, and upon his interpretation of them—whether they mean negotiations as to the future of the Free City or an endeavour to restore it to the Reich by force—depends the issue of peace or war."

"The Times" Berlin correspondent, according to a Press Association cable, says that great disappointment is expressed at the British reception of Herr Foerster's speech at Danzig. Nazi circles complain that it has been minimised by the London Press.

"The Times" Warsaw representative says official quarters maintain that the | speech has fallen flat. ANTI-POLISH BLAST. New Campaign By German Newspapers. FRONTIER CLASH REPORTED. (Received 12 noon.) BERLIN, August 11. The Press has begun a new antiPolish blast, giving prominence to alleged maltreatment of German minorities. An official communique from Warsaw says a German was killed in a skirmish on the Polish side of the Silesian frontier. It is alleged that three armed Germans attacked a Polish guard, who challenged them for illegally crossing the frontier. Other guards rushed up, and firing broke out. The Germans fled, leaving 12 revolvers and 1000 rounds of ammunition behind.

GERMAN SHIPPING.

LESS THAN REQUIREMENTS

(Received 1 p.m.) BERLIN, August 11

Dr. Hoffman, president of the Ham-burg-Amcrika Shipping Line, states that more than 70 per cent of German merchant ships are over 10 years old. The total new construction is 10,000,000 tons less than requirements, contrasting with the effort® of competitors, on whose requirements German shipyards have concentrated.

EVERY PASS WATCHED.

ITALIAN FRONTIERS

(Received 10 a.m.)

ROME, August 11

General de Bono reported to Signor Mussolini that the fortifications on the western frontier were being carried out guarded and every pass watched.

most expeditiously. Every opening was