DISTURBING OUTLOOK

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 29 March 1935, Page 8

DISTURBING OUTLOOK

Startling Revelations of Germany’s Demands

BLOC AGAINST RUSSIA WANTED SIX REMARKABLE CLAUSES (United frees Association—' By Elec trio Telegraph Copyright.) Received 2.30 p.m. to-day. .... LONDON, March 28. Thb “Sun-Herald” learns of remarkable disclosures regarding the German situation, comprising Sir John Simon’s and President Hitler’s disettssion. They wer& £uUy documented and examined by Mr S. M. Brace and British Ministers, who discussed the position informally with Mr J. A. Lyons. Though an immediate crisis is not anticipated, the position is regarded as disturbing. It is understood that President Hitler’s revelations include:— Firstly, a definite statement that German’s air force exceeds Britain’s; Secondly, that Germany- is establishing an active army of 550,000 and not half a million as Britain imagined; Thirdly-, that Germany will not return to the League of Nations until concessions are granted concerning her colonics:

Fourthly, that Germany will not consider any- form of an Eastern security pact; Fifthly, that Germany desires to absorb the German-speaking elements of Austria and Czechoslovakia, to enable a domination of Central Europe; Sixthly, that Germany opposes all pacts with any- clause concerning nonintervention in Austria.

Herr Hitler frankly intimated that he wanted European countries to bloc against Russia, which was the cause of the same complications as the antiGerman bloc-