GERMANY'S REPLY

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 56, 4 September 1939, Page 9

GERMANY'S REPLY

BRITISH ULTIMATUM

"INTOLERABLE CONDITIONS"

"ENCOURAGEMENT OF POLAND'

(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.)

(Receiv.ed September 4, 1 p.m.)

LONDON, September 3. Germany's Note to Britain rejecting the ultimatum is as follows:— 1. The German people ar.e not in a position to accept or fulfil any British ultimatum. 2. It alleges that the British Government has nullified all German attempts at a peaceful settlement. > 3. It contends that the British Government has approved and encouraged Polish steps against Danzig and the German minority, saying that Britain rejected Signor Mussolini's proposal for a settlement, although Germany declared her willingness to accept the suggestion. 4. Germany could not tolerate conditions on her eastern border similar to those in Palestine. 5. Germany therefore rejects, the ultimatum to withdraw German troops. ' The German broadcast station announced Britain's declaration of war by reading an answer which was allegedly given to London by Berlin: "The German Government and the nation refuse to accept or fulfil the ultimate demands from the British Government." Germany did not intend to destroy Poland but merely sought to rectify the frontiers. Britain made a peaceful revision impossible. Britain was responsible for the Polish terror against the German minority and the violation of the Danzig Statute by Poland, Britain repudiated Signor Mussolini's peace plan. "We will reply to each attack with equal arms and in the same form," the statement added.