WILL FIGHT FOR DANZIG

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 18, 21 July 1939, Page 10

WILL FIGHT FOR DANZIG

"NO OTHER WAY OUT"

I GERMANY TO DECIDE

SITUATION STILL SERIOUS

(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) (Received July 21, 2.10 p.m.)

WARSAW, July 20. In a statement broadcast in Polish, German, and Italian, Poland declares, simply and openly that she will fight for Danzig. "There is no other way out for us if the occasion comes," the statement declares. "Let the words of Marshal Smigly-Rydz be understood by those who believe Danzig can be swindled from Poland. England and France have declared their solidarity with Poland. Let the rulers of Germany understand that it depends only on their decision whether the battlefields of Europe are to be covered with millions of dead and wounded and whether the greatest cities are to fall in ruins for onei provincial Baltic town. I

"It is necessary to understand that Polish policy does not include bluff. Poland has said her last words through her Commander-in-Chief.

"Polish political interests have opened a plan of provocation conceived in Germany, and have attained realisation of their plan in Danzig with the shooting of a frontier guard. "The of the situation has not decreased. Reports to the opposite effect, however, are current in Berlin, where Herr Hitler has worked out a plan for Anglo-Gern-'an negotiations."