GRAVE FEAR IN EUROPE

Taranaki Daily News, 13 March 1933, Page 7

GRAVE FEAR IN EUROPE

TENSION AMONG THE NATIONS ANXIETY CAUSED BY HITLERITES -■1....... I. Jiu....... 1.. . ' ' MISSION OF BRITISH STATESMEN ' •■- '■ _ ■ ■ ,-r By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright Received 11.30 p.m. London, March 12, ’J'HE entire Sunday Press emphasises the danger of the present situation in Europe, which is described aa the most serious since 1914. Papers declare that Mr. Ramsay MacDonald’s and Sir John Simon’s real mission to Geneva is to prevent an almost immediate conflagration. Events in Germany have developed so rapidly since Herr Adolf Hitler came to power that anxiety is expressed in several capitals lest, flushed with victory, Herr Hitler may determine to invade the Polish Corridor. France is undisguisedly alarmed both through this fear and the manner of Herr Hitler’s armed Nazi Steel Helmets and police, One paper suggests the position is so serious that attempt may be made to induce Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini, Dictator of Italy, to meet British and French statesmen on the. borders of Italy. ’' * Austria is believed to be on the point of uniting with Hungary for the restoration of the Hapsburg Royal Family. “I favour an understanding with all nations, but this can be reached only among equals/’ said Herr Hitler, when addressing 20,000 people on the eve of a municipal election. “We are ready to offer our hands, but the people to-day only want our money.” ' ' .