ALLIED ULTIMATUM TO GERMANY

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 207, 2 September 1939, Page 9

ALLIED ULTIMATUM TO GERMANY

AMBASSADORS TAKE DEMAND TO BERLIN

Forces Guilty Of 1 Threat To Polish Act Of Aggression | Independence WITHDRAWAL —OR ACTION (British Official Wireless.—Received 12 noon.) RUGBY, September 1. Note olIow» • "eJ|v IhU C imtru s Ud to hand German Government« joint n%r.T 111.1 Ti morning the German ChanceUor issued a proclamation to the German Army which indicated clearly that he was about to attack Poland. Information which hu reached the United French Goyernmenu micatas that Gen-an troop, have crossed the Polish frontier and atta"b "e y,* ppe *" t °, the BritUh and Fnnch Governments that, by its action, the German ofp!wd «ndrt'o"».™n«ly «» aggressive act of force against Poland, threatening the ind.p>o^. to m,pUmenl>,, ° n by ,he Briti,h " nd Fre "< h Government, of the overtaking that l ° ™ f °.T yOUr ExC l eU , en f, y ,hat ' u P Ie " « he German Government » prepared to give an auuru.ce that the German Government has suspended all aggressive action against Poland, and is prepared promptly to withits* ,em,Wy ' H " M »l e »*y'» Government in the United Kingdom will, without hesitation, fulfil "If 0!?* Wa ' '°" dly ' heered " hen r " d,he Hou " of Commons by Mr. Chamberlain, who added: ALELS!? ii hU t™." ' 'd° n °' * Ugge " "U** '° * ° ,herwUe - lhe *** After a slight pause Mr. Chamberlain said, amid renewed cheering, "In that case we are ready." M. y « o "> u, « nd deeply impressive speech, which was punctuated with full-throated cheers, Mr. Chamberlain said: Now aU relevant documents are being made public, we shall stand at the bar of history knowing the responsibility for this terrible catastrophe lies on the shoulders of one man. The German rh.„~ll„ hL not hesitated to plunge the world into misery to serve his own senseless ambitions." At the end he declared- "We shall enter the straggle with a dear conscience and with the support of the Dominions and the BritUh Empire, and the moral approval of the greater part of «he world. We have no quarrel with the German people, except that they have adlowed themselves to be governed by a Nazi Government. As long as that Government pursues the methods which it has so persistently followed during the last two years, there will be no peace in Europe. "We should merely pass from one crisis to another, and see one country attacked by another by methods which have now become familiar to us with their sickening technique. We are resolved that these methods must come to an end, and if, after a struggle, we can re-establish in the wurld the rules of good faith and renunciation of force then even the sacrifices entailed upon us will find their fullest justification." '