REWARD BY NAZIS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19758, 12 October 1938, Page 5

REWARD BY NAZIS

DANZIG PROMISE FREE CITY UNEASY SUDETENLAND EXAMPLE PLEBISCITE UNCERTAINTY BRITISH LEGION WATTS (Eloc. 'ld. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. Oct. 12, 10 a.m.'" LONDON, Oct. 11. A message from Danzig states thai uneasiness exists in Polish circles owing to a speech by Hcrr Robert Foerster, Hcrr Hitler's Danzig nominee, in which, after extolling Herr Hitler's occupation of Sudetenland, Herr Foerster declared that the Germans in Danzig would soon be rewarded for their suffering, as were the Austrians and Sudetens. "Danzig has voluntarily placer! itself under Herr Hitler's guardianship and, irrespective of economic Losses, will remain under him," added Herr Foerster. He said that the antiJewish drive in Danzig would be intensified in order to force all Jews from the free city. Two thousand have already left. Fifth Zone Occupied

The Prague correspondent of The Times says it is understood that after the completion of the occupation of the fifth zone in the area ceded bv O.choslovakia to Germany, the German Government has made it known that it has called a halt. thereby suggesting that there will be no plebiscites. So far demands for plebiscites have not been made by either the Czechs or the Germans It is unlikely thai the Czechs would win a plebiscite in the zones already under German occupation, and the. Germans are not anxious for plebiscites outside those arras. Legion Awaits Orders Members of the British Legion who have been assembled at O'ympia since Friday waiting tor orders to proceed to Czechoslovakia to police the plebiscite areas are leaving there tomorrow and are travelling to Tilbury docks, where they will be housed on board ship pending further instructions. Until the international commission, which is again meeting to-day, gives its decision respecting the plebiscites, the legion will be in the dark as to whether they will be required, though. the weight of facts indicates that they will not b'* r.eedeo.

No announcement is expected for at least two days, as it :s suggested that the commission, which is finalising the frontiers, may be delayed by the move by Poland arid Hungary lor a common frontier.

M 0 HELP IN CRISIS VAGUE RUSSIAN PROMISES "MILITARY WEAKNESS" (Reed. Oct. 12. 9 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 11. Earl Winterton, during a speech at Shoreham, said that Russia oil'ered no help in the Czech crisis but "made

only the vaguest promises owing to her military weakness." He thought that Britain and France would have defeated Germany and made her give up Czechoslovakia, but only after a long conflict and untold suffering. Meanwhile Czechoslovakia would have been ravaged.