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That is, provided Poland re- sints. This, in turn, depends on the resources she herself pos sesses and the nature of the military aid we shall be able to give.
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The Polish Army, which also includes the air forces, has a peace-time strength of 375,000, of which 25.000 ave: officers and 50,000
non-commissioned officers. On mobilisation nearly 2,000,000 men can be with the colours within a few hours, the remaining 1.600,000 consisting of the first class of reserves,
Behind these is the stili greater reservoir of men who have been more than five years in civil life after having done their 18 months' conscript ser- vice. The number in this cate- The gory is secret but, by compari- The tries where conscription is in son with those of other coun-
LI. Hitler's preparations for something are afoot.
is being prepared. world is being told that a peace-force, they can be estimated to he between four and five anil- lions.
loving Reich has longed and
tried for a settlement by nago. tiation, and has been rebuffed.
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But in a modern war man- power is not everything; mechanisation, bolh on the
That is as false a picture as ground and in the air, and the
thoroughness of the training in specialist branches, are
The truth is the Poles have the ***] again and again expressed will-equally important.
ingness to negotiate a settlement. with Germany about Danzig. Herr Hitler has made no attempt to do so for his arrogant and peremptory, demand in April for the cession of the Free City and of a belt of land cutting the "corridor" in half was in no way a proposal to negotiate.
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By a Military Correspondent
(In The London "News Chronicle")
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Map shows Poland in relation to those States in Central Europe which are vitally affect-
ed by the present international situation, The shaded area in Central and Southern Poland is
the important 26,000 square mile industrial area which can now be menaced by Germany from the former Czecho-Slovakian border.
most
In the 18 months of training the Polish soldier becomes specialist in the particular type of warfare his regiment will have to undertake. Those who are trained in the difficult country in East Poland, for in- stance, are mounted cavalry, In this part of the country mechanised forces would be at artillery as well as tanks, the Lowlands. Owing to the Ger- slower than our own but posse a disadvantage. There are al- Army has adequate supplies of man occupation of Czecho a margin of speed above that together one division and 12 tanks, armoured cars, artillery, Slovakia the fact that the latter of any bombers they are likely But even in reply to that independent brigades of cavalry mortars and material for the district is on the frontier will to encounter. Colonel Beck reiterated his as compared with 30 divisions corresponding supply and com- partly nullify the original in-
munications services.
tention of having the
As in Germany, a very large readiness for conversations for of infantry.
valuable works as far as pos-
reserve of potential war pilots is "revision of German-Polish reia-
There are altogether, in the sible from the frontiers of any being built up by means of first line. 30 regiments of light potential enemy. The success gliding clubs. There are over" tions on good-neighbour basis."
artillery, and several regiments of the "C.O.P." scheme as it is 90 gliding clubs, and the num- That offer was ignored. For
Because of the varied nature of anti-aircraft batteries.
known has had a far-reaching ber of pilots who can be con-
sidered 18 These last are mechanised effect on the industrial situa- sufficient air sense to make in fact Herr Hitler has no desire manoeuvres in Poland are more and employ guns similar in tion. the country, the annual)
having developed
them qualify as war pilots with for negotiation. He is not con-widespread than in any other characteristics to our own. All Unlike Britain and France, a short period of training is now cerned with the grievances of army. They extend into the the lighter guns are now being no attempt has been made to over 10,000.
winter months when Moun- fittel with special carriages separate the ground and air the Danzigers-nor have they taineer Battalions obtain prae- which allow them to be fired forces. The two organisations Apart from the purely mili- any substantial ones, save those tice in the Carpathians, especial- from their wheels without im in the Polish defences are iden- tary corps, there are several organisations of them who are suffering underly in the use of sledges and pairing the accuracy of the aim. tical and the advances made in semi-military the Nazi regime which governs
The spirit of the Army is the design and manufacture of which, in a war, would under- high in the infantry, the army aircraft is similar to that take service duties, Chief among the city.
The vast army which might savalry and the mechanised of the armoured and mechanised these are the Military Police, be used on the Western fron- divisions.
the Corps of Frontier Defence, As in our own army, sections of the ground troops. the Police Force and the Fron- He is not concerned for a tier is probably one of the best that of the Tank regiments is A recent estimate of the tier Guard. There is also, the
equipped on
Continent. particularly good.
the atrength in first-line machines, Rifles's Association which allows Because of the vast armament French, the Polish Army show all of which are modern types, women members and, in co. industry that has been de- particular favour for armoured credits the Polish Army with operation with other organisa It is no question of simply veloped, which has allowed Po- cars, the majority of which are over 3,000. The value placed on tions, trains between 80,000 and
as heavily armoured and carry the aeroplane as a parely mili- 90,000 each year. restoring "German Panzig" to land to export aircraft and as heavy armaments as the tary weapon is evidenced by German Reich.
ordinary light tank,
settlement. He is anxious for a new triumph,
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at the dismembering of Poland, he dismembered Czecho.
Slovakia.
skis.
the
in
Like
the ratio that is maintained We can be confident that, if Danzig, like the Sudetenland, in her offer of negotiation which
between heavy bombers and and when our two countries are the lighter military machines ghting for our mutual pro- would merely be a stepping still stands. But that is not
of approximately 1:4. The tection, the large, well-trained This abundance of modern Polish General. Staff believe in army with its equally large re- stone.
Herr Hiller aims at the what Herr Hitler wants.
equipment in the Army has been using the acroplane as part of "erves of both men and first- "corridor," at Poznan, at Silesia,
due to two main factors, the the Army's mechanisation and class equipment will be one of He is fomenting trouble self-sufficiency obtained by the for a more humane purpose the most powerful factors in Danzig in pursuance of wider development of the "Central In- than the ruthless bombing of the war, next to the French Army and the British Air Force. dustrial Aren" with large elec- civilian populations. aims. It is not the fate of the trified munitions works situated
A great deal of the efficacy of the Polish Army to repel at- Free City but the fate of free far from any frontier on which
tack in a major war can, of Wêre the "Danzig question" nations that will be the stake if at the time; and to the en- they were likely to be attacked
course, be seriously impaired if purely one of Danzig:
eficient heavy further strategic parts of Eu thusiasm not only of the de- bomber, the Los, is equipped rope fall into the hands of the he persists.
signs of armaments, but in the Germany peaceful in intention A Danzig coup if it comes will alacrity with which the develop with two Pegasus XX, engines Totalitarian States. The dan
manufactured under and genuinely desirous of a be a chalienge to Europe. And ment sections have accepted from Bristols. Its range with a region resulting from the Ger- licence ger to the Sandomierz Lowland foreign designs.
5,500lb. lond of bombs is 800 man occupation of Bzocho- The Central Industrial Area, miles, and with a 4,000lb, load Slovakia cannot be allowed to
were
peaceful and reasonable settle- such a challenge, as
We
have
The most
ment, settlement there could learned, cannot be avoided a consisting of about 26,000 1,240 miles. The maximum be repeated in any other sector bo without question.
second time by the methods of square miles, comprises the dis- speed is 280 m.p.h. similar to which could ultimately affect
tricts of Kielce, the Lublin that of the Bristol Blenheim. the potency of any of our poten-. Poland has made that plain Munich.
Uplands and the Sandomierz Polish fighter machines are tial allies.