Evening star., 1938-09-01
HITLER MAY SEE
HE|N NDERSON SOON
Fuehrer at Berchtesgaden
After Inspection of .
F0rtifiCations.
BY the Associated Press.

BERLIN, Sept. 1.-Chancellor Adolf
Hitler returned from inspecting mill
tary fortifications to his mountain
home near Berchtesgaden today, set
ting the stage for 4 possible early
conference with Sir Neville Hender-
son, British Ambassador, about the
German-Czech dispute.
British sources said Sir Neville was
determined in the course Of the day
to see Foreign Minister Joachim Won
Ribbentrop or Secretary of State
Count Ernst Won WeisZaecker for q
preliminary discussion.
Afterward, the informants said, an
appointment with Der Fuehrer at his
Bavarian retreat seemed likely
Having completed his whirlwind,
f1ve-day inspection tour. Hitler turned
his attention to the series of speeches
he is to deliver during the annual
Nazi party congress in Nuremburg, be-
ginning next Monday. His final visit
of inspection was to point on the
German-Swiss frontier near Basel,
Switzerland.
The first of the chancellors party
rally addresses will be his annual
proclamation to the Nazi party, to
be read at the formal opening Septem-
Der 6. In which he customarily reviews
Nazi achievements of the past and
sounds future keynotes.
3,500,O0O Demand Freedom.
General interest in the proclamation
| this year centered about Hitler's pos
sible references to the dispute in
Czechoslovakia, where 3,500,000 Sude-
ten Germans demand q measure of
independence.
Informed sources believed the proc
lamation might contain Hitler's public
answer to a message brought to Der
Fuehrer from British Prime Minister
Neville Chamberlain by Sir Neville.
1t was considered equally possible
Hitler might reserve discussion of the
danger-frought Czech conflict until
September H. when he is to give his
final address before the Nazi conven.
| ton.
The usual crop Of rumors that the
Reichstag would be summoned during
the rally circulated today
Hitler himself has described the
rally as "a virtual Reichstag (parlia-
ment) during which an account is
rendered of the governments and the
party'S stewardship"
When Hitler summoned the Reichs-
tag during the 1885 rally to pass the
so-called racial laws, nobody knew
TWO days in advance that he intended
to summon the Reichstag members.
Ambush Yesterday Alleged.
German protest to Czechoslo-
vakia-which would be the third
within a week-appeared likely as a
result Of an alleged ambush yester-
day when Czech customs officials
were said to have shot at, but missed,
German frontier guard near Oelsen.
SaXony. Foreign Office quarters said
such protest was being considered.
Although the German was not in
jured, the incident was reported by
~ A'' H., tAio oiuSldl 1eIndH news
agency. and furnished the text for
screaming headlines calculated to
keep anti-Czech feelings at a high
pitch.
Newspapers asked: "Who dares to
absolve the instigators. especially in
case where Czech violence clearly
begins to run over into disturbances
OF peace, the consequences of which
cannot be calculated in advance?"
Economic Moves Studied.
Nazi experts studied ways Of making
Germany's economic preparedness
equal the efficiency of her war
machine
They agreed the outcome of any flu
ture war no longer was solely depend
ent upon arms supremacy and that a
healthy export trade, not isolation
producing autarchy. is any countrys
essential prerequisite for success in a
long war-notwithstanding the Nazis
energetic program that has tried to
achieve economic self-sufficiency.
Maj. Gen. Georg Thomas, head OF
the commissary staff, maintained: "A
new order Of things in economic life
must be established: 1t Must be re-
lated closely to world trade and to the
fulfillment Of all self-sufficiency meas
ures necessary to safeguard the ma
tion."