GERMAN DESIGNS

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 June 1936, Page 14

GERMAN DESIGNS

TO SEIZE RUSSIAN LANDS? [PEB PRESS ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, June 17. After visiting France, Switzerland, Germany, Austria-Hungary and other countries, Mr. Brian Dunningham of Auckland, who returned by the Wanganella, to-day, describes European relations at the moment at being “a gun-powder plot, needing only a spark to set it off.”

In the United States, Mr. Dunningham made the acquaintance of the Dean of Canterbury, and accompanied him as secretary through Canada, subsequently visiting Europe with influential introductions. He said that Germany was the focal point, as there war was held to be the only solution to the present financial troubles; Germany, in a military r sense, was by far the best prepared country in Europe. The occupation of the Rhine was only a minor act, in a much bigger play. His information from influential sources supported the belief that what Germany wanted was a piece of Russia. Her eyes were on the southern oil fields and the grain lands of Ukraine. He say many evidences of military preparedness.