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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23422, 11 August 1939, Page 11

STANDING BY

I POLISH ARMY . A . RISK OF NEW CRISIS ■TENSION IN BERLIN; SUPPORT OP ITALY (Received August 10, 7.10 p.m.) LONDON, Aug. 30 / Leave of absence will not be granted to the officers and men of ■ the Polish Army after Tuesday, owing to the bslief that a showdown" is likely, ( although not necessarily war, says the Warsaw correspondent .of tho Australian Associated Press. :Xo slackening,of tension is noticeable in Berlin, where it is still believed that '. if the worst ; comes to the worst, Britain and France will not support Poland. u Italy and Germ.iny are understood to liave reached a full agreement, i. Reports in the German press of the ill-treatment of Germans in Poland continue to inflame public sentiment. It is announced that Polish guards fired on three Germans who crossed the frontier last Sunday, and that one was Wauded, says th<i Warsaw correspondent of.the Times. The fact that the incident was hushed up for three days indicates the care the authorities are taking to observe the restraint Britain and France are urging. A Polish Customs inspector, Jan Lipinski, who was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment for speaking insultingly of Hert Hitler and Dr. iGoebbels, has been set free in exchange for a Danzig Customs officer whom the Poles had imprisoned. The . decision of the French Prime ' Minister. M. Daladier, to prolong his holiday confirms the impression' in France that the Danzig situation is not , expected to become acute, says the Paris correspondent of the British /United Press. Lipinski was arrested by the Danzig 1 i police on June 9, following the dispute between the Nazis and Poland ° v ® r ■ the Polish Customs inspectors. The Jfazis had claimed that the number ot Polish officials was disproportionately large, 1 but after Lipinski's arrest the Poles appointed 3} more inspectors. WESTERN FRONT _/ GERMANY'S DEFENCES JOURNALISTS MAY INSPECT. INVITATION TO FOREIGNERS J BERLIN. Aug:. 9 , "The wall in the West keeps watch op the Rhine and the Ruhr," said Field-Marshal Go'ering, after a long inspection of the air defences. 7 foreigners sjiould send ' special correspondents who were welcome to see everything and note the determination °f the people to defend peace, under the « conditions the' Reich wanted, or to defend'the Fatherland, »if others foolishly plunged Europe into war. ITALIAN' TROOPS - REVIEW 'BY RULERS / ' 'Mm MECHANISED UNITS • \ ROME, Auor. f) Bombers roared overhead to-day while S'gnor Mussolini conferred with the Duke of Aosta, Viceroy of Abyssinia, aHout African matters and King Victor Emmu'nuel took the salute a review of troops at Turin, and for a long time ho conversed with General Haider, head of tyie German military > Mission. \ Tlio extent of the\mechanisation of tto troops was demonstrated by the fret that not a single infantryman Passed in one h<sur ofct of the tlireefour march past. \ ft is understood thljt the Foreign Minister, Count ' Ciaro, may visit "erliii shortly to confW about Germany's proposals in regard to Danzig. MOSCOW NEGOTIATIONS MR." W. STRANG'S REPORT (Rfreived Aiiprust 10. 7.10, p.m.) ••.«fllish Wireless LOXDQX, Aikj. » The Foreign Secretary, \ Viscount • ivf 3 ' to-day received a report from AV. Strang, of the Foreign Office, ■ho has been present at tha Moscow Stations. Callers at • th<i\ Foreign wa ice included the German Ambassador.