British
Warned By
Chamberlain
On
Over-Optimism
Hopes
Of Crushing Hitlerism
Speedily
Unjustified Says
Premier
Prime
Minister
PRAISES
WAR UNITY
Says Britain And France
Resolve To End Hitler
Threat Forever
By CHARLES A. SMITH
International News Service StaffCorrespondent
LONDON, Sept. 26.— A warning- to
the people of Britain against over-optimism and unjustified hopes of crushing
Hitlerism speedily was delivered by Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain today.
"The British people,"
Chamberlain reiterated, "are resolved to rid themselves once and for all
of the perpetual threat; of German aggression.
French
Expect
German
Drive
On
October 10
Believe Attack Through Neutral
Countries
Will Start At That Time
GERMAN TROOPS
ARE CONCENTRATING
Heavy Artillery Fire
Screens Activities Behind
Lines To Some Extent .
PABIS, Sept. 26.—October 10 was
chosen by French military observers ..today as the date on -which Germany will
strike—by way of' Belgium, Holland and Switzerland in a desperate effort to mow
down French defenses and sweep through to a swift victory for Nazism in Europe
by springtime.
.During the next two weeks,
artillery engagements In the Saar valley expected to intensify in violence and
scope.
But the Germans will not have
until that time- troops In sufficient numbers in readiness to launch the
tremendous offensive upon which Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler's hopes are based.
The .big question facing the, Allies
as Germany turned her armed
might-from Poland to the .Western
Front Is: where will the-Nazi war
machine strike? The arrows on-the
map indicate four possibilities of
action-and are the basis of
Franco-English strategy. -The arrows point
to-the Netherlands, Belgium,
Luxembourg, and Switzerland. -Black line
indicate Germany's borders. Central
Press
Page 2
Britain Is Suspicious Of Russia
Sees
Menace To
Small
Nations
Britain
Also Angered Over
Sinking
By Germans Of
Swedish
Vessels ,
NO
REPORT ON ANY
NAVAL
ENGAGEMENT
By CHARLES A.
SMITH
International News Service Staff
Correspondent
LONDON. Sept. 26—British suspicions
of Russia’s reported double-pronged menace against the small nations of the
Baltic' and Balkans was- shown today in black headlines in the evening
Press.
"Red Army arrives on
Estonian border," said the Evening Star." Rumania fears Soviet Coup;
100, divisions near border," the Evening News proclaimed.
Second
Swedish Ship Sunk
Britain also "showed anger
over the sinking of a. second Swedish merchant ship by a German
submarine on the excuse that she carried wood pulp and cellulose which the
Germans said was contraband.
• The ship was the Sulisha, 2850
tons bound from Gothenberg for Hull Her crew of 19 took to lifeboats
and were picked up off the Norwegian coast by the Swedish steamer
Sucica. Sunday the Gevtrud Blatt was torpedoed by a German. submarine.
According to the London Dally
sketch today, Swedish ships enroute to England have been ordered by radio to
speed to the nearest ports. -
Demand
Convoys
Swedish ship owners, the sketch said,
are reported to be demanding British convoys for boats carrying pulp and cellulose
to England. A deputation of owners, it was said, called on the Swedish foreign
minister and demanded that he protest to Berlin against the sinking.
The roar of guns heard off the western
coast of Norway yesterday found no explanation in official British quarter;;
today. Islanders off Bergen even reported seeing smoke clouds, the funnels of a
large ship, and airplanes.
But the British admiralty said "we
have received no report of a naval engagement off the Norwegian coast, as would
have been, the case, had one occurred."
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