GERMAN DENIAL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 30 June 1939, Page 5

GERMAN DENIAL

NO COUP BEING PREPARED “WE HAVE ONLY TO WAIT” (Received 30th June, 9.15 a.m.) LONDON, 29th June. The Berlin correspondent of the British United Press says that high German sources admit Danzig is strengthening her defence forces, but they deny Paris and Warsaw reports that 4000 storm troopers and troops in plain clothes arrived in the city from East Prussia. They also deny a ; Paris report that Herr Hitler is planning a Danzig coup at the weekend, declaring that Danzig would return to the Reich without bloodshed. “Our policy is to refrain from any move precipitating a general war,” said an official, adding: “We have only to wait.” “PLANNING NEW MISCHIEF” The “Daily Telegraph” says: “If Herr Hitler listened more to wholesome counsel than to Dr Goebbels he would realise that the British nation was never more in earnest, never more of one mind and never nearer the limits of its patience. He will make a great mistake if he persuades himself that the longsuffering of the British and French democracies is merely the result of degeneracy and cowardice. War is not yet inevitable, but it hangs on an incalculable hazard—the caprice or obsession of one man.” The “Daily Herald” says: “It is clear Herr Hitler is planning new mischief in Danzig. He is not concerned with a settlement, but is anxious for a new triumph. Danzig, like Sudetenland, would be merely a stepping stone. “Herr Hitler aims at the Corridor, the Polish city of Poznan, and Silesia, and at the dismemberment of Poland as he dismembered Czechoslovakia. Such a challenge cannot be avoided a second time by the method of Munich.” ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL AGREEMENT “The Times” says it is officially stated that Britain hopes to conclude an economic and financial agreement with Poland at an early date as a result of the latest talks between officers of the Treasury and the Polish mission in London. The Poles are asking for financial assistance to build up the peace front and to buy war materials, heavy artillery and aircraft from Britain, raw materials from British possessions overseas and credits to develop the industries located on the southern frontiers between Germany and Russia.