NAZI ACTION

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23415, 3 August 1939, Page 11

NAZI ACTION

POLISH OFFICIALS "SPYING IN DANZIG' SENATE'S ACCUSATION / —; CEASE RECOGNITION '< ~~~~ , By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyrigh (Received August 2. 8:40 p.m.) LONDON, Aug. 1 The Danzig Senate has denounced 100 Polish Customs inspectors and has announced that they will nc longer be recognised. The Senate accuses them of carrying on military and industriaj spying, intrigue and kidnapping. It 'quotes the Treaty of Paris, 1920, limiting the number of Polish inspectors to 23, and says others cannot be engaged in legitimate work. The denunciation is regarded as the first step iu the Nazi plan thought out by Herr Hitler to squeeze Poland out of Danzig. ' WAR ANNIVERSARY GERMANY CELEBRATES. CALLING UP RESERVISTS VILIFICATION OF BRITAIN ' i _____ (Received August 2, 11.50. p.m.) • . f BERLIN, Aug. 2 A .million of Germany's standing array are taking part in celebrations throughout Germany of the 25th anniversary of the outbreak of the World War. Germany war on Russia on August 1, 1914, and German troops entered Luxembourg on August 2. Reservists are now being called up and 2,000,000 men will be under arms by the end of the month. The press is extending its campaign of vilification of - England. It blames Britain and France for the Great War and attacks them for their renewed intention to smash Germany. t GREAT MANOEUVRES * »• / f ROYAL AIR FORCE TESTS FOR PERSONNEL MOR£ THAN 1000 MACHINES (Received August 2, 7.10 p.m.) British Wireless LONDON. Aug. I JThis year's exercises of the Royal Air Force—from next Tuesday, until the following Friday—will be on a larger scale than ever'before. In the manoeuvres, which will include important night operations, there will be engaged mere than 1000 aeroplanes of different types —bombers, fighters and scouting machines—and a ground staff of 20.000 men. - The, latest .methods of attack, and . defence'will be tested in operations of a magnitude nerei before possible. Coinciding as they will with the Territorial camp season, the exercises will ; enable members of the anti-aircraft and

observer corps /to co-operate. A black

out over 27 counties, including London, 1 in the early hoinjs of August 10 will be incidental to the manoeuvres.

SOVIET BATTLESHIPS INCREASE IN SIZE AGREEMENT WITH BRITAIN : ' ; LONDON, Aug. 1 A White Paper, modifying the 1933 agreement between Britain and Russia fornavaHimitation, permits Russia to increase new battleships from 35,000 tons to 45,000 ;tons, says the naval correspondent of the Daily Telegraph. BUILDING BEGUN i RUSSIAN HIGH SEAS FLEET LONDON. July 28 It is in Moscow to-day that Russia has begun building battleships. The Vice-Commissar of the Navy, M Tevossian, in an article in the newspaper Pravda, says:—; "Shipyards experienced in building submarines and small craft have begun the honourable task of constructing a high seas fleet. ''Russia was last year the sixth biggest naval builder, but she must be first in 1942. Our battleships will be thp world's fastest and strongest." M. Tevossian also re% T ealed that Russia is building cruisers "faster, hfiavier and better armed" than the Italian ones designed by Kiroff and commissioned iij 1937. GIBRALTAR'S FUTURE ' •_ > SPAIN SEEKS RETURN . • BURGOS, Aug. 1 The entire Spanish press publishes article stating that the return of Gibraltar to Spain" will be solved satisfactorily,. It could be made a European question if all the European fi& tions intervened pacifically.