Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 April 1939 — Page 4
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FRENCH ORDER FRONTIER GUARD ON WAR FOOTING
Relations With. Franco
41 Million Men Available for In Europe if and When It
| 8 Mediterranean and North Africa Expected to Be Scenes of Battle.
(Continued from Page One)
THE INDIANAPOLIS MES War Comes
because it was awaiting specific instructions from Nagi of-
BERLIN REPORTS [5 so POLISH ‘TERROR’
According to the DNB “terrorism” Warsaw Government Ar-
dispatch, 100 Germans fled to the village of Praust, which is in the rests 21 as Nazis, Danzig Protests Song.
Dangig territory, and were sheltered in a schoolhouse by the Nazi welfare organization. The dispatch said that the Germans told stories of arson and beatings, alleged to have been instigated by the Polish “Western Province Association.” Official quarters here and at Warsaw continued to deny reports pub-
BERLIN, April 13 (U. P).—Al-|jished abroad that Germany had
Tense: Daladier Joins | tier between French and Italian in-
In British Pledge. |t ts—the 100-mile frontier across PARIS, April 13 (U. P) —France| ine sandy desert between Tunisia has taken military precautions on and Libya, French engineers have the Pyrenees frontier in answer to built the Mareth line as a miniareinforcement of Spanish National- ture reproduction of the Maginot
ist garrisons along the French fron-; Hence experts doubt that there| J
tier from the Mediterranean to the will be any attempt by the major Bay of Biscay, it was learned to- powers to strike direct blows, That day. {explains the anxiety among the Infantry and artillery were placed three smaller powers which have the at positions which the fighting geographic misfortune of being naforces established during the Mun- tural corridors used for centuries by ich crisis in September, when it invaders—Switzerland, Holland and was not known whether the Na-| Belgium. tionalists would support Italy and] Proof of the determination of the Germany in event of war. smaller powers to maintain their Simultaneously with the an- neutrality and defend their frontiers nouncement of support to Rumania js furnished by the Dutch threat to and Greece in London by Prime/cut their dikes and flood one-third Minister Chamberlain of England, of the lowlands, the Rumanian menPremier Daladier released a state- ace of setting fire to their oil wells ment saying: ‘to prevent them from falling into “The French Government teaches the greatest importance to ness to explode mines planted along’ preventing any modification by force the frontiers and blow the Alpine of the status quo in the Medi- cliffs into the valleys to block in-
terranean or the Balkan Peninsula. [ree
Switzerland guards its neutrality with guns.
tried to wipe out the French and|domestic production to national British surface fleet in the Mediter- needs in as many fields as possible. ranean in order to grab Suez and| While the British fleet presumably
Gibraltar, the German army would |could bottle up Germany in the
be pouring through the Brenner Baltic, its activities might be con-
at- German hands, and the Swiss readi- Pass and using the Lombardy plains| fined to the North Sea unless Rus-
to reach France on the right flank sia entered the war.
With her present North Sea fleet,| If Russia stays out, there is no
according to naval experts, Britain doubt that Germany could control
would be able German fleet at bay without weak-/the narrow entrance off Kiel,
to hold the entire! the Baltic and by heavily Mining
: : With the frontiers so well defendDecision Up to Rumania led to the east and southeast, the French hope to avoid the destruction of 1914 but the wide open Pyrenees Spanish frontier has suddenly become a serious menace to Trench security. It becomes increasingly evident that Generallisimo Francisco Franco will be closely allied—morally if not militarily—with the two dictators who helped him | win the civil war.
“The French Government has] given Rumania and Greece in par-| ticular guarantees in event their) independence is threatened. M. Daladier said that “if the Rumanian and Greek Governments consider it to their vital interest to resist with their national forces, the ¥rench Government will consider itself committed to lend all immediate gssistance in its power. “The British Government taken the same commitments.” French-Spanish relations Were more tense than at any time since, diplomatic relations were resumed. | Marshal Philippe Petain, hero of | Verdun, whom France sent to Spain| as Ambassador, had returned andj conferred with leaders of the Cabi- | net and the General Staff. It was) reported that he would take a diplo-| matic “vacation” which would keep/ him in France until the Govern-| ment had probed to the bottom a series of reports regarding Spain. |
i ftalians Reported Near Border
These reports included: 1. Concentration of Nationalist troops in the Pamplona and Bilbao! areas near France, including rein- | forcements for the garrisons at | frun. Tolosa, Pamplona, Jaca and
San Sebastian. 2. Establishment of Italian troop headquarters at Logrono, 70 miles from the frontier. 8. Arrival of Italian Army officers in civilian clothes on the Spanish | south coast. | 4 Construction of fortifications in Spanish Morocco—by German military engineers—in the Ceuta an
has
[thousand other Italians in Libya]
ening her strength in the Mediter- able to keep the British out and ranean or risking security of her enjoy the natural resources of the Atlantic traffic lanes. The latter whole Scandinavian peninsula. must be kept open to insure the| Unless Germany or Italy directly constant arrival of food, and war attack France in a military invasion, material, which will be bought on Britain is not likely to be called upon a “cash and carry” basis if thejto send a major expeditionary force United States revises the neutrality across the channel. act. However, the co-ordination plan The German fleet is rapidly be- of the two general staffs provides ing rebuilt but her three big ships that Britain's air ef ohSes shall be of 35.000 tons are still on the ways based on the Continent. VISIY JAUKS 16.0FF2HE0 and will not be ready this year. Plans were drawn up months ago Italy has not attempted to hide! One of the British-French moves for the British air force to take over the fact that if the rival blocs) in event of war would be to clamp in the space of a few hours specified clash. Gen. Franco will be asked toa blocade against Germany and air bases in Northern France and provide air and naval bases for the ftaly. It is a long-range means of to occupy intermediate positions Germans and Italians in the Atlan- bringing the dictators to terms, where listening services can report tic from the mainland ports of however, and is difficult to makeito London the passage of enemy Cadiz, Vigo and Corunna as well as airtight. planes in ample time for Britain's from Spanish Morocco and the] That is why Germany at present|defense forces to intercept the inCanary Islands. To offset that, the is engaged in an economic offensive, | vaders. French may be expected at the out- tying up Rumanian oil and wheat set of war to occupy the Balearic and Jugoslavian meats and grain to Islands as a guarantee of Mediter- insure deliveries in case of a blockranean communications. lade and to allow Germany to go: If war comes, Italy will find her into those countries to take what naval outlets plugged at Suez, Gi- she needs if they break their trade braltar and perhaps out of the agreements by refusing deliveries. Adriatic. The British will be at! Germany has been preparing for Malta and Corfu and the French at years to meet an economic blockModane and Vintmille in the Alps, jade, which has been the purpose of as well. Hermann Wilhelm Goering’s fourTwo hundred thousand Italian|year plan to build up Germany's
troops in Ethiopia would be cut off from their home base with 500,000 RUMANIA REINFORCES WESTERN FRONTIER
Ethiopian warriors at their backs, clamoring for revenge. One hundred BUCHAREST, Rumania, April 13 the British in Egypt. (U. P).—The western border was “Gamelin Plan” Exists reinforced with fresh troops today It is no state secret that the fa-|in the face of attacks against Rumous “Gamelin plan” exists and has mania in the Hungarian press, inexisted since the Munich crisis last| cluding one article in which HunSeptember, for the French penetra- gary was said to claim the city of | § tion of Italy. Under it, the French! Brashov, in the center of this coun- |
would be pinched between the powerful French forces in Tunisia and
Tetuan zones, and thus apparently
trance to the Mediterranean,
Duce Stages Air Raid Drill at Rome
vantage of the common German-;
ROME, April i3 (U. P) —A dra- Italian frontier created by anschluss.! mors that an exchange of some Ru- ; Under that plan, Italy is to bel, a.ian border towns was being conknocked out completely as rapidly as| gjgered in return for a Rumanianeventuality, was held in Rome today. her into submission on land and by| Shou which Hungary seized from | | Czechoslovakia. y
BRITAIN AND FRANCE
matic air raid drill, first of a series to prepare the country for any yssiple. The ultimate aim is to beat It was known that Premier Mus- air while the French fleet, backed solini already had made full dispo-|/by the British Mediterranean fleet sitions of the Army, Navy and Air tries to sink the Italian fleet. To do! Force. Today it was the turn of| that they must overcome the menace the public to demonstrate prepared- of Italy’s 120 submarines and 2000 ness by the air raid drill. {bombers, so based that thev need | Authoritative circles denied Lon- fly only a few miles to fight foreign | don reports that Italy intended to|ships at sea. create an independent Macedonian! The French and British believe! state at the expense of Jugoslavia. that by midsummer they will have
en overcome the present aerial super-|
jority of the dictator states and forge ahead.
Nazis Rebuilding Fleet The strategy on
Gamelin plan” into reverse. |
VIGTOR EMANUEL Il 1 The s the Geman] American war material. |} Italian side probably would be to put | the i that amount was for military air-| , >Y Hoy / nes, motors and accessories. RN here ate " N X . cgay oY -4
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TIRANA, Albania, April 13 (U.| P) —King Victor Emanuel III of
Italy wil lcome here to be crowned AfterKing of Albania, it was reported
today. | Easter
At the same time it was learned that Premier Mussolini's projected visit to Tirana as the culmination to Albania’s occupation Ly Fascist! troops had been postponed indefinitely. The Albanian crown was offered! Victor Emanuel vesterday by the! National Constitutional Assembly, which established a new and the-! oretically independent Government. - It was announced officially meanwhile that Italian troops have taken over nearly all of the country except thinly populated mountainous sections of the frontier zone. The Italian press issued special editions in view of the personal union of Italy and Albania through the Kingship. They carried front page pictures cf Victor Emanuel and Premier Mussolini. Count Galeazzo Ciano. Italian Foreign Minister who watched at! the assembly meeting vesterday.! left by plane for Rome at 8 a m.! today. At the airfield to bid him farewell were Premeir Verlaci and a group of Italian generals.
185 BRITISH WARSHIPS! NEAR, GREEKS CLAIM
ATHENS, April 13 (U. P) —Persistent reports that a big British fleet of possibly 185 warships was steaming somewhere between Malta and the historic Ionian Islands remained unconfirmed today as Italian troops continued to consolidate
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legations of Polish terrorism against Germans in the Polish Corridor, a protest by the Danzig Government against the dissemination of an alleged anti-German song, and the arrest in Poland of 21 persons described as German Nagis brought sudden tension in relations between Germany and Poland today. The combination of reports came as the British and French Governments were preparing to make declarations of Mediterranean policy, aimed against an Italian expansionist program at the expense of smaller nations. First the official DNB News Agency, in a dispatch from Danzig, asserted that 100 Germans had fled from “Polish terrorism” in the Polish Corridor between Germany proper and East Prussia. Danzig Makes Protest Second came an official announce-
ment at Warsaw that 21 “German Nazis,” including some women, had
been arrested in Western Poland on charges of inciting against the state, insulting the Polish Army or organizing or belonging to an organization similar to the Hitler Maidens of Germany. Third came the news that Danzig’s Nazi Government had protested to the Polish diplomatic representative against distribution from Polish trains crossing Danzig territory of an Anti-German song, “Rota.” It was regarded as noteworthy here that this protest followed the complaint of “terrorism.”
Arson Reported at Praust
Until the protest was made, it was understood, there had been a suspension of discussion for several days of routine small incidents and prcblems affecting relations of Poles and Danzig people. There had been a feeling that there was some tension, and that the Danzig Government had suspended the usual conversations
sent new demands to Poland as regards Danzig, the Polish Corridor or establishment of a strategic motor road zone connecting Germany and Bast Prussia. It was denied also that there had been any extraordinary troop movements in German territory near Poland. The Voelkischer Beobachter, official Nazi Party newspaper organ, said in a front page article today that not until Germany had as much territory in the world per person as had France and Great Britain would European equilibrium be established “in the opinion of Nationalist Socialist Germany.”
CZECH EXHIBIT UNCHECKED NEW YORK, April 13 (U. P).— The $1,000,000 Czechoslovak exhibit at the World's Fair--partly completed when Germany occupied Czechoslovakia—will be finished and operated on a nonprofit basis by a committee of outstanding citizens, Mayor La Guardia said today.
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