THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 5, 1939.
DANZIG NAZI LEADER DENIES COUP PLANS "Troops Unlikely To March:" Dependence On Poland
Plans For Royal Reception In Canada
Quebec, To-day.
is announced that the Canadian Premier, Mr. Mackenzie King, will be the first to greet the King and Queen on May 15.
Mr. Mackenzie King will board the "Empress of Australia" imme- diately the liner arrives in Wolfe's Cove, Quebec Harbour.
ADMIRAL BACK FROM SWATOW
ADMIRAL SIR PERCY NOBLE,
RE- COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF TURNED TO HONG KONG EAR-
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Prosperity
Herr Greiser, President of the Danzig Senate, categorically denied in an interview with the special correspondent of the London "Daily Tele- graph," that the Danzig Germans had any inten- tion of organising a coup d'etat to reincorporate the Free City in Germany.
"I think it highly unlikely that German troops will march into Danzig," Herr Greiser continued. "The position of the Free City is very different from that of, say, Memel, before its transfer to the Reich.
"Here there is a rule of 90-per-cent. German LY THIS MORNING IN H.M.S. population by its own government. The Danzigers are German at heart, but," he added significantly, "their daily bread comes from Poland.”
FALMOUTH FROM VISIT TO SWATOW.
A
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The Canadian Premier will then down accompany Their Majesties the gangway to the dock, where he will present them to the Lieutenant- Governor of Quebec Province, the Hon. Esioff L. Patenaude, and Mrs. Patenaude, members of the Federal Cabinet and their wives and Premier of Quebec Province, Hon. Maurice Duplessis.
The King, will then inspect the guard of honour, after which Their
arrived In Swatow Majesties will proceed to the Pro- vincial. Buildings for Quebec's just in time to be an eye-witness formal welcome-Router.
of a Japanese air-raid.
the the
Herr Greiser said that he
as-largely careerists, who hope to ob-
As the Falmouth came into port, she was saluted, in accordance with naval procedure, by the U.S.S. Assumed that the "Danzig question" tain good jobs for life in a Nazi
would one day be settled by direct administration.
LEADERS' DIFFERENCES toria, now in Hong Kong.
negotiation between Berlin and Sir Percy
It is no secret that Herr Greiser Warsaw, but he had no idea when this would be. The Danzigers were himself, a clear-headed administra- content to wait "in good discipline" | tor, frequently fails to see eye to until the question was settled be-eye with Herr Forster, the Nazi district leader, who presses for a tween the two countries.
in more vigorous pan-German policy. Polish troop concentrations the vicinity of. Danzig were,. hein Danzig. In the event of Danzig added, the result of a comprehen- becoming part of the Reich. Herr sible, though unjustified, nervous- ness following the Memel coup.
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Forster, who is now confined to his bed, would presumbaly become Reich Administrator.
Members of the Danzig Govern- "I do not think," he continued "that, in the event of a transfer of ment, having observed the virtual Danzig to the Reich Poland would | withdrawal from publle life to men be able to transfer her whole trade who were once prominent but in- to the port of Gdynia. She needs two | sufficiently radical members of tho Nazi party in Austria and other ports to deal with her trade.
absorbed territories, do not share Herr Forster's enthusiasm for an- nexation.
"The Fuehrer has, however, al- ways admitted that Poland must have an adequate outlet to the sea, and an arrangement could doubt- less be made regarding the use of the harbour.”
Excellent food, plentiful butter and eggs and all household unplies are abundant in Danzig. Whinned Polish official quarters appeared cream of the sort piled on the cakes to agree that a German march into served in the Danzig cafes has not Danzig is now unlikely--but for been seen in Berlin for several rather different reasons than those years.
given by German spokesmen. In Polish circles the feeling pre- "Hitler will-not_march,” a Polish| dominates that Herr Hitler may official said to me; "because he have had a Danzig coup in mind knows that it means certain war when he took many units of the against a well-prepared and patrio German fleet with him up the Baltic tic people. He cannot face war un-Sea, to Memel. It is belleved that der those conditions.”.
only the swiftness and determina- "We have 1,000,000 men under tion with which the Polish military arms, and, within 36 hours, we authorities noted on this, occasion could have 4,500,000. All these caused the German Government to could be employed on ona front?” postpone a decisive stroke...
GALM ON FRONTIER:
•Particularly significant is the at- titude of the Danzig population. It is felt that Mr. Chamberlain's Nearly all of them are thoroughly guarantee of the Polish frontiers German:fromia cultural and racial on behalf of Britain and France standpoint, but very few show any has had a tonic effect on the situa-
tion. great enthusiasm for becoming part of the Reich.
The Free City is now extremely prosperona, owing to the trade which it handles, from. Its. Pollah economic, hintenland. Incorporatio In the Reich would. the ruin of Dan
The Germania.
Danzigers
tike.on
Both German and Polish, opinion are disposed to believe that Herr Hitler would now regard action in the Free City alone risk compared ward.
ridor,
The wish of the bulk of the lation is undoubtedly, to remain tire citizens of a Free City, and not to
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