“GERMANY’S AIMS ACCOMPLISHED”

Southland Times, Issue 23932, 26 September 1939, Page 7

“GERMANY’S AIMS ACCOMPLISHED”

Broadcast Similar To Peace Offer RUSSIAN DIPLOMACY IN BALKANS POSSIBLE MENACE TO GERMAN REAR (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright) (Received September 25,10.15 p.m.) NEW YORK, September 24. A German official broadcast intercepted in New York declared that with the redrafting of Poland’s frontiers the Reich had accomplished its war aims, and the war was over as far as German aspirations were concerned. The broadcast said that Britain and France had no real cause for war, and Germany had no quarrel with Britain and France. The declaration is described by The New York Times as “not unlike an unofficial proposal for peace.” It took most of the 15 minutes of the Berlin broadcast in English.

In a radio-telephone message from London the correspondent of The New York Times says that the situation in the Balkans turns towards the creation of a bloc of concerted neutral States, embracing all the Balkan states and guaranteed by Russia, Turkey and Italy. The Balkans appear to be excluded for good from the war theatre, thus protecting the Mediterranean and restricting German military activity.

Turkey has sponsored the move, which Russia and Italy are supporting, for different reasons.

Herr Hitler has been thrown back in the east, where he was able to crush the Poles at the price of allowing Russia to marshal more than 100 divisons on the Vistula-Carpathian line, thus creating the permanent menace of a stab in Germany’s back immediately she weakens in the west. Germany has also lost the Ukraine and the prospect of seizing Rumania’s economic resources. DEFENCE OUTLAY IN TURKEY BIG MILITARY CREDITS (Received September 25, 7.10 p.m.) LONDON, September 24. The Turkish Government will ask the Assembly to pass military credits totalling 20,000,000 Turkish pounds, says the Istanbul correspondent of the Exchange Telegraph Agency. BURIAL OF BRITISH PILOT MILITARY HONOURS AT WILHELMSHAVEN (Received September 25, 7.10 p.m.) . BERLIN, September 24. The German wireless station announces that the ninth British Air Force pilot has been buried with military honours at Wilhelmshaven. DEATH OF GENERAL VON FRITSCH POSSIBILITY OF DISGRACE (Received September 25, 10.10 p.m.) COPENHAGEN, September 24. The Berlin correspondent of Danish newspapers are speculating whether General von Fritsch, who was killed on the Warsaw front, was in disgrace. It is pointed out that the most scanty news has been published in the German newspapers about what General Fritsch was doing when he was killed. At the time of his death he was Colonel-in-Chief of the 12th Artiller/ Regiment. The German newspapers published very brief obituary notices. PRIZE COURT ESTABLISHED BY REICH MINISTRY (Received September 25, 9.10 p.m.) BERLIN, September 25. The German Official Wireless has announced that the Reich Ministry of Justice has established a Prize Court, which it hails as proof of the “continued success of Germany’s counter blockade.” The Court would pronounce sentences in strict accordance with international law, it added. BLANKETS FOR CANADIAN ARMY

NEW YORK, September 24. The order for half a million blankets for the Canadian Army has not yet been placed, because no individual mill in the United States is able to produce such a quantity in three months.