BLUNT WARNING

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21755, 21 March 1934, Page 11

BLUNT WARNING

GEBMAN ABMS NOTE

HITLER'S LAST WORD A VIRTUAL ULTIMATUM EXPANSION OF BOUNDARIES By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received March 20, 10.45 p.m.) LONDON. March 19 A message from Berlin says the newspapers there bluntly warn France that the German Note of March 17 is HenITitler's last word on the arms issue. If it does not bring a settlement Germany will go ahead with a good conscience. Herr Hitler, in an address' to the Nazi Old Guard, in Munich, said: "The boundaries of the German Reich are always changing, and will continue to change until the German peoples are united " The French attitude toward the British memorandum on disarmament is discussed in a Note which was handed this afternoon to the Foreign Secretary, Sir John Simon, by the French Ambassador, M. Corbin. The Paris correspondent of the Daily Mail says the .French Note to Britain asserts that German rearmament will be completed by April 16. In most quarters in Paris it is believed that the Note sounds the death knell of the attempts to patch up an agreement. PRUSSIAN BOAST SPIRIT OF POTSDAM MILITARISM REVIVED BERLIN, March 14 "The world frequently derided the spirit of Potsdam, and laughed at Potsdam militarism and its goose-step. But it stopped laughing when the tread of the Prussian grenadiers reverberated on the battlefields." General Goering, Premier of Prussia, made that boast when speaking at the investment of Major-General Friedriche as Mayor of Potsdam, reports the Berlin correspondent of the Times. General Goering pronounced Prussia's epitaph as a "geographical expression," owing to its disappearance in Nazi reforms.

Nevertheless, he added, Prussia would go marching on. "This steadfast, soldierly stock, not a babbling multitude of addlepates," would restore German greatness. The tramp of ft single disciplined battalion was worth far more than the choicest Parliamentary speech. Germans, declared General Goering, should be proud to be laughed at as a nation of militarists, for the Prussian spirit of devotion to duty bad regained the honour of the Reich.

Prussia had prepared the Ileich for the Napoleonic, Austrian and' French wars, and would now, under Hitler, become a mightier bearer of the Reich idea.