NEWS AND NOTES

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4809, 12 July 1939, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES

Political circles in Warsaw are satisfied with Mr. Chamberlain's speech as closing all gaps and even more definitely confirming British guarantees and declarations.

The secretary of the German Consulate in Melbourne, Herr W. Biasings, who has returned after a visit to Germany, said: "In respect to Danzig, Britain is putting her finger in a pie which does not concern her."

The United States Navy's two 45,000-ton battleships, for which the shipyards at New York and Philadelphia are at present being enlarged have been named lowa and New Jersey. The Navy Department probably will ask Congress next session for two more, thus forming the world's most powerful battleship division.

Mr. Chamberlain's speech restating Britain's commitment to aid Poland has not deterred the Danzig Nazis. Attacks against Poles are reported, and a dozen Polish workers were arrested after leaving Schichau works and were sent to concentration camps in Germany. ,

The possibility of a Federal election before the end of the year is freely hinted in the daily press in Sydney and Melbourne due mainly to the bad relations between the Government and the Country Party which are daily growing worse and also to the hostility of sections of the Labour Party to the Government's national register, which some of the largest, as well as the key, unions intend to boycott.

Elements of the Danzig question as they appear to Britain were fully reviewed in a statement which Mr. Chamberlain made in the House of Commons, in the course of which he emphasised Britain's resolute intention to carry out the guarantee given to Poland and also disposed of the contention, which has recently figured in German propaganda, that what is represented as Polish intransigence on the Danzig question, dates from, and is accounted for, by the British guarantee.