BRITAIN ABUSED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 August 1939, Page 6

BRITAIN ABUSED

OUTBURST IN THE GERMAN PRESS

PRAISE OF POLAND RESENTED

TALK OF MR CHAMBERLAIN'S “IRON INSOLENCE.”

UNPRECEDENTED MILITARY MANOEUVRES.

By Telegraph—Press Associat inn—Copyr ieht, LONDON. August 1.

Berlin missaoes stall* that Iho iii-wsp::pci's willunit exeoplioii abuse Mr Chaniborlain's praise in the House of Commons of Poland's rest raint. declaring-that it needs iron insolence to condone anti-Gennan excesses, which are well known in Britain.

"Britain's front line will be England tins time." declares the “Angriff." which adds. “It won’t bo a quiet one." The newspaper ridicules England's air raid precautions and declares that the anti-aircraft arid artillery units are disorganised and lhe steel shelters a joke. It estimates that Britain's reserves of raw materials at only five months.

Reinforcing the warning that the lull may not endure, the German armed forces are commencing unprecedented manoeuvres. A huge area in Germany is closed to aircraft while warplanes exercise. Foreign air attaches are not invited'.

Later mass manoeuvres by motorised troops will follow over Sudetenland, Silesia. Bohemia, and South-East Germany right up to the Polish frontier. A message from Rome states that Italy is holding similar exorcises over a 220-mile front from the French Alps to Veron. The advance will be as realistic as possible, with air attacks and the “destruction and repair of roads and bridges.” The Chief of the Hungarian General Staff will attend. "We assure Mr Chamberlain that Danzig will return to the Reich unaffected by theatrical questions or the debate in the House of Commons" is the German official news service comment on the British statements. It adds: "Mr Chamberlain’s declarations exceed the limit of patience when he. in the face of continuous action against the lives and property of Germans in Poland, finds words of praise for the peace-endangering attitude of the Pcles.

“We also note the confirmation that England and America are playing the same game against Japan.”