CRITICAL DAY
PARADE IN DANZIG ASSEMBLY OF NAZIS 40,000 NEW ARRIVALS COUP NOT EXPECTED By Telegraph—Press Associatioa —Copyright (Received May 10, 1.10 a.m.) WARSAW, May 15 Press reports state that 40,000 young Germans, ostensibly tourists, have entered Danzig in the past 10 days. They are expected to participate in a parade of Danzig's Brown Shirts and Black Guards to-day, which the authorities are not seeking to prevent. Political circles do not expect a "putsch" at present, but voting papers similar to those used m tho Nazi plebiscites are reported to have been printed in Danzig. The Polish Minister of Defence, General Kasprzycki, has gone to Paris to confer with M. Daladier and the military staff.
HITLER'S PLANS ALTERNATIVES PROVIDED CAMPAIGN OF ATTRITION " AGGRESSION " BY POLAND BERLIN, May 11 Well-informed observers in Berlin are discussing what are described as Herr Hitler's alternative plans for Danzig. In tho first place, they declare, an attempt would be made to wear down Polish resistance by a "long campaign of nervous attrition." This would be based on the calculation that Poland's financial structure would begin to totter under the strain of continued mobilisation and military precautions, and the theory that tho Slav temperament would be unable to stand ceaseless propaganda, agitation and threats. Secondly, Herr Hitler would attempt to manoeuvre Poland into tho position of an aggressor, for which it is stated a plan has been drawn up provisionally. Herr Forster, the Danzig Nazi leader, nnd Herr Greiser, the President of tho Danzig Senate, would, under this plan, issue a proclamation that Danzigers, of their own accord, want incorporation in the Reich, whereupon German troops would enter Danzig territory, leaving the next move to Poland, which would undoubtedly occupy Danzig. Then the world would be informed that Poland was the aggressor and that German troops must act to protect tho lives and property of German citizens.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23347, 16 May 1939, Page 9
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