NAZI LEADER TO SPEAK

Southland Times, Issue 23893, 11 August 1939, Page 7

NAZI LEADER TO SPEAK

RESULT OF VISIT TO HITLER SURPRISE PROMISED IN SPEECH POLES EXPECT CLIMAX IN NEAR FUTURE (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright) (Received August 10, 10.40 p.m.) LONDON, August 10 Herr Albert Forster, leader of the Nazis in Danzig, who returned _to the Free City yesterday from a visit to Herr Hitler at Berchtesgaden, will make an important speech tonight. Herr Forster told the Danzig correspondent of the Paris newspaper Excelsior:— “I am reserving a surprise for my speech. It is clearer than ever that we must return to the Reich, and as quickly as possible. We do not | want war, but it is inadmissible that Britain and France should encourage war by supporting Poland, who is too bellicose. My speech will prove to the world that our claims are just. “I know our appeal will be re- , jected. Then we will act, if that is the only way by which we can obtain satisfaction.” Herr Forster will speak at 8 p.m. The Berlin correspondent of The Daily Telegraph says that the meeting at which Herr Forster will speak tomorrow is being held at the express | desire of Herr Hitler, who has laid down the lines of the speech. No slackening of the tension is noticeable in Berlin, where it is still believed that if the worst comes, Britain and France will not support Poland. Italy and Germany are reported to have reached “full agreement.” Reports in the German Press of ill-treatment of Germans in Poland continue to inflame sentiment.

Leave of absence will not be granted to the Polish Army after August 15 because of the belief that a “showdown” is likely, though it will not necessarily mean war, says the Warsaw correspondent of the Associated Press. The Warsaw correspondent of The Times says it is announced that Polish guards fired on three Germans who crossed the frontier last Sunday, wounding one. The fact that the incident was hushed up for thrde days indicates the care with which the authorities observe the restraint that Britain and France are urging. M. Jan Lipinski, the Polish Customs officer who was sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment on Monday, has been set free in exchange for a Danzig Customs officer whom the Poles imprisoned. The Paris correspondent of the British United Press says thaj the decision of the French Prime Minister (M. Edouard Daladier) to prolong his holiday confirms the impression in Paris that the Danzig situation is not expected to become acute. GERMAN “WALL IN THE WEST” WATCH ON RHINE AND RUHR BERLIN, August 9. “The wall in the west keeps watch on the Rhine and the Rhur,” said the Minister of Aviation (Field-Marshal Hermann Goering) after a long inspection of the air defences. “Foreigners should send special correspondents who are welcome to see everything and to note the determination of the people to defend peace, under the conditions the Reich wants for the Fatherland, if others should foolishly plunge Europe into war.”