TENSION GROWING

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 65, 17 March 1936, Page 7

TENSION GROWING

POSITION IN RHINELAND : FORCES BEING INCREASED BRITISH CONSULATE WARNED ’By Telegraph—Pre** Association —Copyright/ LONDON, March 15. The Times’ Strasbourg correpondent says that tension is growing, though it is stated in officii 1 circles that there is no reason for alarm. No new events are anticipated before next week. Nevertheless the British Consulate lias been warned to bi prepared for any eventuality. A Metz message states that it is reported that Germany, far from withdrawing forces from the Rhineland is increasing them. From Saarbruck it is reported that further detachments of heavy artillery have arrived. It is now stated from Loerrach that the garrison was reinforced by a regiment of artillery on Sunday. A Frankfui't-oii-Main message slates that the big parade of Rhineland troops, which was intended to be held on Match 16, has been abandoned, and the troops will be merely inspected in barracks. It scents possible that the cancelling of the parade may be regarded as a symbolical concession to French opinion. The parade had been planned on a grand scale, and several thousand troops from other garrisons beside Frankfort would have participated. There is conyuerable discussion in diplomatic circles in London concerning Herr Hitler’s declaration in his Munich speech that the German Government will not tolerate being continually dragged before international tribunals. The Observer’s diplomatic correspondent says that one of the decisive considerations understood to have influenced Saturday’s conversations in London was the clear fact that unless means could be discovered for bringing Germany into the conversations there would be no alternative to convening the Council at once and recommending economic and financial sanctions.