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THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 20, 1939.
READ THIS FIRST AND THEN COMPARE WITH PAQE SEVEN
HITLER MAKES A SPEECH AND PLAYS HIS USUAL TUNE ON THE FACTS
Danzig, To-day.
Poland's answer was first, mobilisa-
WHEN HITLER ARRIVED at the Danzig-Polish tion, then wild terror.
Frontier he was met by Gauleiter Forster, who thanked him in the name of the population of Danzig.
Hitler replied:. "I am delighted to be able to greet
:
My request to Cal. Back to violt me in Berlin was rejected. The resist Poles were persuaded to Germany,
A guarantee was given to Poland, and the Poles were given the oppor-
you in a city which now again belongs to Ger-tunity to begin war! They were only many, my faithful Gauleiter.
"
The pair then shook hands and Forster addressed the
crowd.
Hitler commenced his speech with the words, "Danzigers, not only you but our whole people are witnessing this great hour of liberation.
"This moment is an experience of joy not only for you but for the whole German people. I am myself con- sclous of the greatness of this hour. I am treading for the first time on soil which has been settled by German people for half a millennium.
Continuing Hitler said: "The World War, that most senseless of all wars of all times made a sacrifice of this city and of this land.
The
The fact that the German people were united in one territory con. talning 82,000,000 was overlooked.
TheBe at Versailles.
82,000,000 want to live and will live even if It does not quit warmongera," Hitler declared that 50 more years have would have been sufficient to taken Poland back to barbarism. "Po- land never was a democracy," he ex- claimed, "and the Polish people them- selves were oppressed by a ruthless upper class."
a, pawn in the game of universal' war- mongers!
MR. CHURCHILL BLAMED
I have constantly uttered warnings against Churchill, Eden, Duff-Cooper and the rest but I was laughed at.
To-day these men are calmly say- ing that it is no longer a question of
Poland but of the German Govern-
ment.
I believe it would have been pos- sible to avoid, war were it not for the British guarantee and incitement these apostles of war.
of
GERMAN PLANE OVER LIMBURG
The Hague, To-day. Germany has apologland to the Netherlande for another violation of the latter'a neutrality.
This time the incident occurred when a German plane flew over Limburg on September 8-Rou- tar.
FRENCH COUNCIL OF MINISTERS
Paris, To-day.
The Premier, M. Edouard Daladier, has summoned the first Council of Ministers of his new Government for 10 o'clock this morning (Wed- nesday).
The Council is expected to discuss the political and milltary situation arising out of the Soviet invasion of Poland.
con-
I was ready to negotiate directly did with Poland but the Polea not turn up." Referring to Mussolini's offer of me- diation after the invasion of 'Poland,
After the meeting, a declaration Hitler said: "Peace could have still.
reaffirming been secured. France agreed but Bri-will probably be issued
to HE TRIED AND TRIED
the French determination tinue the war till victory is won.- Hitler continued: "I tried to and altain refused, sending the Reich a two-
Reuter. solution for Poland.. I submitted pro-hour ultimatum. posals orally to those in power in Po- land. They knew those proposals. QUESTION OF TIME **
They were more than moderate. Germany had entered the World tried to reconcile the economic de- War with no war aims. She hoped mands of Poland with the German that the ensuing peace would render character of Danzig. possible the restoration of Germany and abolish all distress.
World War which nobody won and everybody lost has left in everybody a conviction that such fate must never be repeated.
was
The Peace of Versailles, instead of being one of free negotiation imposed upon the German people.
The war mongers of that time did in- not solve a single problem but stead had created numberless new problems.
At that time I was too modest. What I did 1-did-to save the Ger- man people and the Polish people from other suffering.
POLAND CHOSE WAR!! "Poland chose war and had it. Po- Iland had been told that it would be easy not, oply to hold up the German troops but to make them retreat..
"Poland has learned in 18 days how they have been lied to.
These demands were repeated by me
the Spring-Danzig in must return to the Reich. A road must be built through the Corri- dor, naturally at our expanse. It was only a question of time be- Countless Germans gave a sigh of fore the downtrodden German nation | relief when Poland rejected my pro- would itself rise once more to solve posals because they believed that these newly-created problems.
had gone too far to meet the Poles!
SIX AND EIGHTPENCE
"Meredith, I want to make my will My fox-head scarf-pin to my Uncle Philip, unless he remarries. My col- lection of film stars' portraits, auto- graphed, I leave to the Mess. To my faithful butler, Albert Hawkins, the contents of my cellar..."
"But, Lord Henry, in't this rather sudden P. It was only laṛt night that I chanced to catch sight of you in Regent Street on the roof of a taxi-cab, sound- ing a fanfare on what appeared to be a hunting-horn**
"Don't remind me of it, Meredith. If you only knew how I feel. Not a morsel of food has passed my lips since 'a 'brace of "devilled bones at three am.”;
"I am indoad sorry to hear that,
$
Lord Henry, but în all my long ex- perience I have seldom known a hang- over prove fatal, Are you not cognisani. of Rose's Linse Juïce ?”
"I think so, why?"
"Because the laid· Rose's, whether taken as “Gin and Lims" or consumed before bed, dües, by virtue of its therapeutic properties, neutralise the after-effects of alcohol and render hangovers null and void.”
"Is this true, Meredith ?"
* I am spanking, Lord Haniy, as your solicitor?
“Thank you, Meredith, from the bottom of my heart. You have given me fresh hope. Balleve me, when I do come to make my will you shall · not be forgotten.”
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agreement with Germany and Russia agreement sets at because such an rest England's fears of unlimited Ger- man expansion.”.
Hitler added that not only Germany.. but also Russia guaranteed that Po- land would never again rise in the form laid down by the treaty of Ver-
"If ever in history, the expression can now be applied 'the word has been struck with man, horse and waggon.'
"While I have been speak-sailles. ing here, our
troops
are
at Brest-Litovsk, Lemberg and farther south.
At this moment endless columns of Polish captives are marching away. "Yesterday morning there were 20,000 prisoners; last night 50,000; early to-day 70,000 and I do not know how many now. "What remains of the Polish Army will capitulate or be defeated in the next few weeks. The German Army has given the Western democracies a good object lesson.
"As you force
EYE FOR EYE
know I ordered our air most strictly to limit them- selves only to military objects but our opponents in the east and west must not take advantage of this in the future.
"We shall take an eye for an eye and, for every bomb, we shall answer with five bombs,
441 have given orders to the troops to observe the rules of warfare but if those in the west want it otherwise they can have
it.
"In 18 days we have defeated the Poles but now we hope to arrange a situation in, which a tolerable solution can be found by reasonable, means in the future.
PLEASE MAKE NOTE Meanwhile Russian troops.. have marched
White into Ukraine and Russia to protect Russia's interests."
Referring to the relationa be- tween Berlin and Moscow Hitler said that Russia remained Bol- shevik and Germany remained National Socialist.
TO MINIMISE TENSION "It was a matter for the two coun- tries most deeply interested to see how Poland would look territorially and politically in the future.
Germany and Russia would take all pains to create in that territory cir- cumstances which would minimise tension.
"If they are saying in the west that this must not take place. If they are we must saying, in England that reckon with war for three, four or eight years, then we will give them a suitable answer.
NO WAR AIMS!
"I have no war alms against Eng- to land and France. I have tried maintain
these two peace between countries and establish-friendly rela- tions.
"I have specially striven, after the settlement of the Baar, to prevent any conflict and prevent any propaganda which could pro- voke hostility!
"If England continues the war, she reveals her real aims that she wants war against the German Gov- ernment."
If the war lasted three years the word capitulation would not arise on the German side nor in the fourth, fifth or sixty-seventh years.
Hitler declared that it was "bottom- less villainy" that millions of men must be hounded to death and added that undoubtedly Germany would take up the challenge.
He asserted that England had al- ready started a war against women and children by means of her navy.
WE QUIVER IN OUR SHOES Hitler hinted at a German military "The moment
shall when we
use a weapon not yet known and with which we could not be ourselves attacked."
"Neither the German' nor the Rus- slan Governments want to be drawn secret when he said: into war in the interests of the West-' | may ern democracies. ⠀⠀
"Will the gentlemen of England and France please make a note of this?
OTHERWISE KNOWN AS -? "We have found that it is in the best interests of both our nations, fo, have an understanding with each other.
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"We shall never again fight a war
come
He hoped that they would not be forced to use this means and hoped that nobody could then complain' in the name of humanity, an
He concluded that 'Germany' was determined to see this thing through to a victorious and and they only in the interests of the western demo-wished God would enlighten other nations and make them reconsider cracies.
things-Reuter.
"England ought to, welcome
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