GERMAN RE-ARMAMENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 19 June 1936, Page 7

GERMAN RE-ARMAMENTS

A SERIOUS SITUATION

ANGLO-FRENCH CONSULTATION

[BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.]

(Rec. June 19 11 a.m.) LONDON, June 18

The “Sun-Herald" says that startling details of Germany's rearmament appear daily in European papers. The British Foreign Office considers that the seriousness of the situation is not fully comprehended by the public, and cannot be over-exaggerated.

; The "Daily Telegraph" sent Major - General Temperley to Paris, where, he conferred with high French mili1 tary authorities. “My two main impressions." says Major-General Temperley. are the ever-growing danger of German armaments and the need to complete Anglo-French solidarity. The French army is well prepared for all eventualities. It anticipates that the new eastern fortifications will hold out for months if necessary. Consequently. if Germany meditated attack. she would probably turn the northern flank through Holland and Belgium. The Belgium army is insufficient to defend the eastern and northern frontiers, and tin* Dutch army is powerless. Consequently, England and France should give Belgium and Holland every possible material support. The German army is now right against the Belgian frontier. Germany's army is increasing rapidly. It is openly said that Germany in a few years, will ne able to mobilise three hundred divisions, three thousand tanks, and six thousand aeroplanes. Concrete fortifications have already been constructed in the re-oc-cupied zone, where heavy guns have been introduced. “INCREASING TRUCULENCE.” (Reed. June 19, S a.m.) LONDON, June IS. Not since the debate leading to the resignation of Sir S. Hoare has Westminster been the centre of such European attention. It is generally considered abroad that the Commons’ decisions, this afternoon, will decide the course of European policy. The “Morning Post’s diplomatic correspondent understands that the principal cause of the Cabinet's Sanctions decision is the increasing truculence of Germany. It is understood that Sir R. Vanstttart informed the French Ambassador that, the possibility of a rapprochement with Germany was more remote than ever. “The Times’s” Berlin correspondent says that Germany is watching Westminster with cynical detachment. There is little chance that the Nazi foreign policy will fulfil British hopes, and it seems to be tending more m the direction of expansion at the ex- ; pense of the States of Eastern Europe. RETURN OF COLONIES NATIONAL PRESS CAMPAIGN. BERLIN". June 17. Doctor Goebbels has launched a Press campaign for the return of Germany’s colonies. All the provincial newspapers to-day published Colonial supplements. The “Kolnische Zeitung” had a loiir-nage supplement, It included a map of Africa, with. Germany’s former colonial possessions in that continent marked in black ink.

“Regaining the German colonies is for Germany a question, not of prestige, but of honour, justice and economic necessity,” it declared. “The German claim for colonial equality rights will not be satisfied by the simple recognition of Germany’s rights or fitness to administer colonies, but ly the actual possession of colonial territory.”