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STARTLING GOERING NUREMBERG SPEECH
Believed To Explain Clear British Statement
DEATH OF
PRINCE ARTHUR
OF CONNAUGHT
London, To-day.
A bulletin signed by Sir
GERMANY'S
GIGANTIC WAR PREPARATIONS
London, To-day.
Russell Wilkinson and Lord Certain passages in the remarkable speech at
Dawson of Penn, announces that Prince Arthur of Con- naught died at 3.30 a.m. to-
day, while asleep. Reuter.
Prince Arthur, only son of the
DOWNING ST.
BURNING THE
MIDNIGHT OIL
London, To-day.
Conversations at the official Nuremberg of Field-Marshal Goering are be residences of the Prime Minister lieved to have influenced Mr. Chamberlain to and the Foreign Secretary__in warn Germany that invasion of Czecho- Slovakia would inevitably involve in war.
Duke of Connaught, grand-uncle of Goering said that Germany was prepared for any
His Majesty the King, Was 55 years of age. Since the accession of King George VI he had been His Majesty's Personal A.D.C.
He had a long Army career, joining the 7th Hussars on leaving Sandhurst, and transferring to the Scots Greys, of which he later be- came Colonel-in-Chief, in 1907. He served throughout the Great War, being mentioned in despatches..
Downing Street were still not terminated late last night.
Shortly before 8 p.m., the United Ater Ambassador, Mr. Joseph
Kennedy, called again on Mr. Cham-
thing, but phases of which special note were taken included: “We stand here completely calm and confident in the face of what is in-berlain, and later had a long talk evitable,” and “Our air force like our army is filled with untameable boldness and unshake- able confidence in victory."
For the present foreign political highest duties of German manhood crisis, Field-Marshal-Goering in his to give itself for the safety of the Nuremberg speech declared, nation whether with axe or spade He left the Army in 1920, when he was appointed Governor-General they were responsible who had or rifle. and Commander-in-Chief in the harassed the minorities entrusted
to them. Union of South Africa.:
the Foreign Secretary, Lord
At the talk with the Prime Min- ister, Lord Halifax and Sir Samuel Hoare, Home Secretary, were pre- sent.
Shortly after 8 pm, Lord Hali- fax returned to the Foreign Of Gen. Goering then turned to the na-fice and had a long conference with tional food supply. "In other coun- the Chief Diplomatic Adviser to If hatred should triumph over tries, it is said that the food, sup the Government, Sir Robert Vansit- deter- ply question is Germany's weakest tart and with the Under Secretary. mined, with supreme courage, to point. It is known that once it was of State, Sir Alexander Cadogan.
(Continued on Page 16) obey the command of Fuehrer and follow wherever he might lead.
He married HR.H. The Du- chess of Fife in 1913, daughter of reason, the Germans were the first Duke of Fife and the late Princess Royal, the eldest daughter of King Edward VII. They had one son, the Earl of MacDuff.
HEAVY GERMAN TROOP MOVEMENTS
Cologne, To-day.
The essential feature of Four Year Plan, he said namely the pro- vision of absolute impregnability of the Reich's defences, had made it necessary for him to issue a decree that in itself was no light matter. But it was imperative to secure the Reich and it was a matter of build- ing up in the West an Insuperable barrier.
POLITICAL STEP
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"I did not hesitate, stated Considerable troop movements that this was imperatively necessary took place to-day along both work and the workers have carried banks of the Rhine.
out their task joyfully and willing- 17.
Hundreds of thousands of workers have been withdrawn from their workplaces.
Regarding the right bank it in difficult to form an opinion but general" opinion is that - troops, especially heavy artillery," are massed there. — Reuter.
FRENCH RESERVISTS
STILL FLOW INTO MAGINOT ZONE
Although iginally
Why? Because this high political step had become necessary Let me seize this occasion to reply to the
slanderous assertion current in
foreign countries that German had
had recourse to forced labour.
Thank God that we Germans have always felt that it is among the
lowns until least
ovements take Ight,
Ath a rapidity constant practice. Rey
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