HITLER AT A LOSS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 September 1939, Page 5

HITLER AT A LOSS

UNCERTAIN REGARDING NEXT MOVE

RIBBENTROP & GOERING AT ODDS. AMERICAN CORRESPONDENT’S STORY. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, September 26. The Paris correspondent of the New York “Herald Tribune” says Herr Hitler is reported to be undecided whether to follow the urgings of Herr von Ribbentrop to throw the German armies through a neutral country and attempt to crush France'before Britain is prepared to take the field or to follow Field Marshal Goering’s advice to let the Allies take the initiative. Herr von Ribbentrop argues that it is ridiculous to wait while England and France starve Germany. Field Marshal Goering holds that Germany at present should observe her pledges in order not to impress the United States unfavourably while the Neutrality Act is before Congress. A Rome message says the Italian radio, mentioning the possibility of the collapse of the Siegfried line, says the Allies should bear in mind that this would probably bring the Allied armies into contact with fresh German troops. Official quarters in Berlin state that Germany’s only concern on the Western Front is lest her enemies violate the neutrality of Belgium and Holland. It was hinted that Germany may release French prisoners as a gesture of friendship to France.