SPIRIT UNBROKEN

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 243, 14 October 1939, Page 3

SPIRIT UNBROKEN

NEW POLAND WILL ARISE AMBASSADOR BROADCASTS FROM LONDON I British Official Wirelee?. 1 RUGBY. Oct. 12. j . M. August Zalc.-ki, Foreign Minis- I ■ ter of the new Polish Government, j : | was received in audience by the King, j “In this great hour of trial the spirit i of the Polish people is unbroken, and their determination to carry on is un- ’ I changed,” said the Polish Ambassador, Count Edward Raczynski, in a broadcast from London to-day. He added that Poland’s alliances were a guarantee of ultimate victory. "Poland will not falter until our final freedom is attained. We are nbt flghti ing for our own liberty but for the I liberty of all nations and for a better • Europe.” “We have faith that some day a new Poland will arise,” said Mr. Herbert" Hoover, former President of the united Slates, in a broadcast address. There could be no permanent peace so long as the oppression of great independent races continued. The War Office, replying to a German report that Polish troops on September 8 at Jaslo used yellow cross gas mines supplied by Britain, denies that any type of gas was supplied to Poland. The German Demands. Concerning Germany’s efforts to explain away the German aggression upon Poland by ascribing to Poland the responsibility for various incidents leading up to the German invasion, a German wireless bulletin contained a long statement purporting to give . proof that Poland deliberately misled Britain and France by suppressing information about Herr Adolf Hitler’s demands of which Poland was already aware. This argument yesterday found its way into Germany agency messages which, at the same time, represent the Nazi demands from last. October onward as moderate and solely aiming at repairing alleged injustices. ’ 'Fhc truth is that the concessions ’ required by Herr Hitler were regard- ! ed by Poland as inconsistent with her J sovereign rights, this and the fact J that Herr Hitler had demanded certain territorial concessions were well s known in London and Paris. The - question of the precise moment al - which the full extent and details of the Nazi extractions were communi- : cated to Britain and France, becomes. ' therefore, of purely academic inter- ' est. ’ What is really important, and whal had been publicly stated more than ■ once, and—it is very significant to ■ observe is admitted in this latest i Nazi propaganda -is that The German I demands had been definitely rejected ■ by Poland some time before Poland • even knew that Britain had an\ in- ■ tent ion of offering Poland a guaran- ■ tee.