A DEFINITE “NO”

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 243, 14 October 1939, Page 7

A DEFINITE “NO”

NAZI INTERPRETATION OF SPEECH | Real War “Begins” | To-night I | RESPONSIBILITY WITH BRITAIN I [By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.i ; Received Oct. 13, 8 p.m. i STOCKHOLM, Oct. 13. The Berlin correspondent of • the newspaper Tidningen says j that Herr Hitler has decide/! that ■ Mr. Chamberlain’s speech coni stituter* a definite “No” to his peace offer. Therefore, he has aken "all measures to prosecute lhe war.” Orders have already i oeen issued to all large Rhineland towns to prepare for evacua- i tion. The newspaper adds that HitleiY j decision followed a lengthy confer- i ence at the Chancellery, at which Hitler and the Nazi leaders carefully studied Mr. Chamberlain's speech. Mr. Chamberlain was considered to have “torpedoed Hitler’s peace efforts.” Berlin, therefore, believes that peace is no longer possible and that the responsibility for continuing th? war lies with Chamberlain. A German Foreign Office official i said the time for negotiation had now | passed and the real war in the west • would begin to-night. The Berlin correspondent of the British United Press says the official Diplomatische Korrespondenz declares: Mr. Chamberlain has interpreted as weakness the goodwill which the German people, through the Fuhrer’s mouth, showed to the British and French peoples. Herr Hitler’s readiness for peace was prompted by a genuine sense of European responsibility, but Mr. Chamberlain has answered it by shamefully insulting the German people and leaders.” Germany “Knows the Road.” The journal adds: “The German people honestly desired to come to terms with England and even live in friendship on a basis that each should work in their own sphere undisturbed by the other. England envies the German people its benevolent fate. Filled with jealousy, England strives to caluminate the Reich for the purpose afterwards of annihilating it. Germany has not forgotten what she must expect from her western adversaries, but she has learned her lesson and knows the road she must travel in order to destroy the aims of her enemies.” Apart from this comment lhe Berlin morning newspapers completely ignore Mr. Chamberlain’s speech. A Paris message says the French will meet at 10 a.m. A "LIMITED” WAR POSSIBILITIES Ol'' AERIAL ATTACK J NEW YORK, Oct. 12. Lord Marley, chief Opposition whip in the British House of Lords, interviewed on arrival in Washington ' stated Britain would bomb German industrial centres only if the Reich 1 Air Forir attacks London, stales the Washington correspondent of the United Press. “V/e, too," he said, j "have great respect for human lives, ; but if Herr Adolf Hitler starts we I have to go on. • "You see, nobody yet knows the possibilities of aerial warfare, and I think i both sides are hesitating to start. There is a possibility I hat. we will have a limited kind ot war, just, using the armies." NOT A PRISONER U-BOAT OFFICER WHO RADIOED ' Received Oct. 13, 5.5 p.m. LONDON, Oct. 12. Mr. Winston Churchill, First Lord | ot the Admiralty, in a written reply Io a question asked in the House of Commons, said that the U-boat com-