DESIRE FOR PEACE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23419, 8 August 1939, Page 9

DESIRE FOR PEACE

GOERING'S ASSURANCE GREAT RESPONSIBILITY KNOWS WHAT WAR MEANS LONDON, Aug. 6 Field-Marshal Goering, in his speech at Dessau, said: "If we are rearming furiously it is only in order to be victorious in any fight forced upon us. I do uot want a war, because I know what it means. It is the greatest responsibility that a statesman can shoulder. Germany Is desirous of peace." Reynold's News says the massing of Nazi troops on the Polish border has reached such ominous proportions that the Minister of Military Affairs, General Tadeusz Kasprzycki, has ordered an additional 300,000 to mobilise, states, an Independent Cable Service message. It is estimated that there are between 700,000 and 800,000 Germans and Polish troops on the frontier, but by August 20 Poland will have 1,200,000 under'arms. COLONIAL QUESTION "LAST GREAT ACT" - * RECONSTRUCTION OF REICH (Received Annnst 7, 11.40 p.m.) BERLIN, Aug. 7 General Ritter von Epp, president of the Colonial League, in a Bpeech at a demonstration urging settlement of the colonial question, said: "It will b<} the last great act of reconstruction oi: the Reich, but it would be a mistake to believe we cannot move in this direction until other outstanding questions have been settled."

SHORTAGE OF COAL NAZIS' PRECAUTION CONTROL BY A DICTATOR LONDON, Aug. 6 It is announced that Herr Paul Walter has been appointed a special commissioner, with dictatorial powers, to control coal production in Germany, says tlie Berlin correspondent of the British United Press. It is hoped to overcome the shortage which is threatening armament and industrial activities. HITLER TO SPEAK TANNENBERG ANNIVERSARY BERLIN Aug. 2

Herr Hitler, on August 27, is to deliver an important speech on the Tannenberg battlefield, where, between August 26 and 31, 1914, the German Army under von Hindenburg inflicted a crushing defeat on the Russians. CLAIM ON BULGARIA TURKISH SOLDIERS SHOT Independent Cable Service (Received August 7, 5.5 p^m.) ISTANBUL, Aug. 6 Two Turkish soldiers were killed by Bulgarian frontier guards, and the Turkish Government is demanding apologies and reparations. The Bulgarians claim that one Turk was wounded when he trespassed across the frontier. "NO WAR THIS YEAR" VIEWS OF CORRESPONDENTS Independent Cable Service (Received August 7, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, Aug. 7 The Daily Express, under.the headlines "No War This Year," says a canvass by its reporters in nine European capitals showed that seven believe there will be no war and two are doubtful. The men in Berlin, Paris, Rome, Vierina, Warsaw, Gene\'a and Ankara think there will be peace in 1939, while the men in Munich and Budapest are doubtful. TRADE WITH AFGHANS GERMAN AGREEMENT (Received August 7, 5.5 p.m.) BERLIN, Aug. 6 A trade agreement has heen concluded between Germany and Afghanistan under which Germany will deliver factory machinery under a credit arrangement. INDIRECT REBUKE NAZIS IN HUNGARY BUDAPEST, Aug. 0 Speaking at, a Parliamentary dinner the Hungarian Prime Minister, Count Paul - .Telecki, indirectly rebuked-Nazi newspapers and-civil servants? who take advantage of their position to attack the Hungarian Government.