Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 May 1939 — Page 8
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POLAND SPURNS | Here Is Where HITLER'S TERMS ae \ AS ‘ONE-SIDED'
Beck Says Poland Is Willing To Enter Negotiations On Equal Basis.
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ring, who reportedly made such a remark to President Moscicki,
Note to Germany Delayed The Polish charge d'affaires at Berlin, Stefan Lubomirski, handed a memorandum to the Foreign Ofice late today replying to Germany's | note denouncing the German-Polish | treaty of nonaggression. It covered | more or less the same ground as Col. | Beck's speech but in more precise] legal language.
Officials expected that the Sejm | would act quickly to approve the]
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The Free City of Danzig, with same as that of Marion County, is
man rule in 1455 and submited to
of France. In 1814 it went back t
dictatorial or emergency powers many in 1919 and made a Free Ci asked for the President until Nov. 1,| Commissioner. but it was necessary that the | measure go through the routine| of the Polish Corridor, also taken f
committee and other stages. Col. Beck's brief but dramatic address was, in general, concilia- | tory but he made clear that Poland! was determined not to bow to force! or the threat of force. He put the next move up to Herr Hitler.
carries 65 per cent of Poland's fore
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If Germany desires to negotiate a peaceful setlement, Col. Reck con-
Reply Sent to Moscow as
tinued, after declaring that there was no aggressive intent in the ; ‘ ’ alls British-Polish defensive under- Irish Army G standing, the Reich must have Up 5000.
peaceful intentions and use peaceful methods. “If such conversations materialize,” he said, “the Polish Government will, according to its custom, regard the problem objectively and with its best will.” But, he added. there “is only one]
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mier and Foreign Minister, to deliver the answer. Without flatly rejecting Soviet proposal, the reply Janes i : ar and advances reasons why the thing in the life of men and ne. [Clear and not acceptable at presHons which og without price and |g, but at least theoretically leaves thas is honor. : the door open for a future military “Danzig was not invented by the | arrangement. Versailles Treaty,” Col. Beck said| The British Government anxiously in reference to Herr Hitler's de-| awaited the Soviet reaction, which it hunciation of the nonaggression yas hoped will offer a clue to Hey, whether a change in Soviet foreign policy is involved in the resignation of Maxim Litvinov as Foreign Commissar. The British reply attempts—British quarters say successfully—to overcome Moscow's fear that by pledging assistance to Eastern European countries, Russia might be involved in war with Germany while Britain and France stay aloof,
Japan Causes Caution
The British memorandum emphasized that Russia would be expected (to aid Poland and Rumania only they already were receiving armed assistance
Asks Aims of Nazis
He admitted that the population of Danzig was predominately German, but insisted that the Free City’s livelihood and prosperity depended economically on Poland. If the German Government had interpreted the 1934 nonaggression | pact with Poland as intended to isolate Poland, he declared, “we should always have regreted this interpretation.” Col. Beck referred to previous de- | ; velopments regarding Danzig. Re- | after : calling demands for annexation of British-French . . Danzig to Germany, he said that 2nd only if they then requested Rushe received no replies to Poland's Sis aid. Russia had sought a more March 208 proposal for a common | Reneral agrement to oppose any agguarantee of the rights of the 8ression in Europe. Free City. He interpreted Ger-| The British reply indicated un-
many's stand as a refusal to nego-| Willingness to enter into a direct tiate, he said. | military aid pact with the Soviets
“What is the real aim of the because of the probable effect of German policy?” he asked. “Is it!such action on Japan and on Poland freedom of the German population and Rumania which fear Russia as in Danzig, which has not been | much as they fear Germany.
menaced, or a matter of prestige, or! ’ Esthonia to Accept
is it a matter barring Poland from | the Baltic from which Poland has Pledge From Germany BERLIN, May 5 (U. P.). — The
not let herself be barred.” Deputies Cheer Speech Nazis reported new successes today in their campaign to surround the Baltic Sea with neutral states—the signing of a nonaggression pact with | Estonia and the initialing, or preliminary signing, of another with Latvia. Tuesday the Foreign Ministers of thing,” Col. Beck said. “Our gen-|the four Scandianvian countries —- eration, which is bled in several Denmark, Sweden, Finland and ways, surely deserves a period of |Norway—meet at Stockholm to conpeace, sider German Foreign Minister “However, peace like almost all|Joachim von Ribbentrop’'s offer of things in this world, has its price— |the same kind of a pact to them. high, but definable.” Denmark on Spot Col. Beck spoke slowly, in a tone . i J so low his audience missed many With Lithuania cut off from the phrases. But he raised his voice sea by the German annexatfon of and banged his clenched fist against | Memelland, those six countries are the desk in saying that Poland |i, only ones touching the Baltic, would not permit herself to be which would become Germany's pushed away from the sea. first line of naval defense in warThe deputies cheered. time and across which she transMention of the Polish agreement ports vital imports from the Nordic with Britain also had been cheered | sountries. wildly. It was understood in London that The Ambassadors of the United sweden, Norway and Finland were “States, Britain, France, Turkey and disinclined to enter into any nonRumania and the Ministers from aggression pacts with Germany but Iran, Esthonia, Portugal, Greece and [that Denmark, being strategically Jugoslavia were among those pres- more at Germany's mercy, was inent, The German and Italian dip- clined to accept one. lomats were not. Creation of miniature ghettoes in
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3000 KILLED OR WOUNDED IN JAP CHUNGKING RAID
Planes Also Bomb Swatow: Americans Periled by Bombs in Capital.
FREE CITY Danzig Bay
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was destroyed. The Greek repre|sentative of United Aircraft, T. v.| | Vlachos, suffered a few scratches! and said that his escape had been | “miraculous.”
Methodist Hospital Surrounded
Fires were set on all sides of the | Methodist Hospital and the adjoin{ing home of Mr. and Mrs. W. M. | McCurdy, Americans. Theodore White of Boston fled (from the Canadian-Frencn mission just before a bomb struck nearby. On a tour of this city of 635,000 inhabitants, the Chinese capital now that Nanking and Hankow have been occupied by Japanese, I heard scream and groans on all sides. Once I was almost trapped trying! to cross a street when the wall of a burning building collapsed and buried many firemen and several civilians who lay wounded, unable to move.
100 Bombs Dropped
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EAST —PRUSSIA
an area and population almost the the natural seaport of Poland, sitIt revolted from GerPoland, which made it a free city.
o Prussia. It was taken from Gerty under a League of Nations High
rom Germany in 1919. Gdynia now ign trade and Danzig 35 per cent.
in Rejects
cers German cities was indicated !
saa: tending to the river. | today by a new decree forbidding : Jews “who will not or cannot emi-| In one spot I saw eight children,
» to live in the same houses none over 10 years old, mangled. I Ee Tr en the 8 w the body of a dead Chinese At the same time, a law published Woman blown 200 yards and hurled (through the window of a European
public offices in the protectorate * ot persons lying wounded or pinfed HIGHWAYS TO DERBY with wounded, many of whom were ‘tate travel to and from Louisville Plane Shot Down said today. | bodies extended. that threatened to spread
| Democrats ' members, and that police dispersed | SUpreme Soviet
POLIS TIMES
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Hitler and Danzig Nazis Consider Reply to Beck
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a downtown square. They said the Germany if brought about by peace- | demonstration was led by Social ful negotiation. and National Union|
| a crowd which shouted “Down Witn Called for May .25 | : " | | Hitler” in front of the German Con-| MOSCOW, May 5 (U. P.).—The sulate. [Presidium of the Supreme Soviet | The office of Premier Daladier of of the U. S. 8. R. today decided to France termed Col. Beck's speech a/COnvoke the third session of the Su-| “remarkable” exposition, “firm put Preme Soviet on May 25 at Moscow, |
|the official Tass News Agency an-| moderate and fundamentally ener-| nounced. getic, based on irrefutable Juridical
| i | | arguments. Beck's 40. Nazi Ships to Pay | |
The effect of Col. nunciation of Germany's demands el on reports that Premier Mussolini of | Unwelocme Visit . Italy might be asked to mediate the| GIBRALTAR, May 5 (U. P).— controversy remained uncertain Portuguese official circles consider pending further study at Rome and |the scheduled, unofficial visit of the consultation with Berlin. German fleet to Lisbon from May 6 British Government sources were )lo I ray ZTopposiiine/” Polish 4 |travelers repor oday. pleased that Col. Beck struck a con-| = pe portuguese general public, it ciliatory note by saying Poland | was said, considered the visit a would show good-will if Germany direct challenge to Great Britain. desired to enter negotiations. A| According to the reports, the Porspokesman said the twin principles tuguese Government will . receive of British policy are to form an|German naval officers with courtesy, antiaggression iront but not to ex-|but there will be a minimum of reclude adjustments or concessions to! ceptions and fetes.
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“We want to reduce accidents and| Chinese authorities reported that revent possible fatalities,” Mr.|at least one plane had been shot] Stiver said. down.
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eee SHANGHAI, May 5 (U, P).—A U. 8S. RAIDS PENTHOUSE Japanese spokesman, indicated to-| | NEW YORK, May 5 (U, P..—|day that hereafter Japan would not!
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