ON SMALL SCALE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 190, 13 August 1938, Page 9

ON SMALL SCALE

GERMAN MANOEUVRES CLOSE RESEMBLANCE TO WAR CONDITIONS CO-OPERATION AIM (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) Received Aug. 12, C. 50 p.m. BERLIN, Aug. 11. According to Marshal Goering’s newspaper National Zeitung, published at Essen, the autumn army manoeuvres will be on a small scale, and will be particularly concerned with co-operation between the army and inhabitants, “so that the resemblance to wartime conditions may be as close as possible.” It adds that theie will be no plan of defending against an enemy from a neighbouring State. Germany does not require such political demonstrations which are so much loved in London, Paris, Prague and Moscow.

CONCRETE STAGE SOON

PRAGUE DISCUSSIONS DESPITE GERMAN EFFORTS TO AROUSE PASSIONS. Received Aug-. 12, 8.10 p.m. LONDON, Aug. 11. The Prague correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says it is anticipated that Lord Runciman’s negotiations may enter upon a concrete stage in a fortnight, despite efforts by the German Press and wireless to exacerbate nationalist passions in the hope of wrecking his mission. The representatives of the Sudeten Germans and Czechoslovakia who are discussing the situation wi.'l resume on August 17. STRICT SECRECY GERMAN FRONTIER WORKS. Received August 12, 8.5 p.m. METZ, Aug. 11. The stride.'. secrecy is being maintained regarding the fortification of Germany’s western frontier, but it is known that the permits have been stopped of many hundreds of German miners who formerly crossed the frontier daily to work in French mines. They are now forced to find work in Germany. It is learned that from Westphalia and MechlenburgSchwerwin for the construction of fortification. Tank traps are reported to have been completed along the frontier, and barbed wire barriers erected ! every quarter of a mile.