Evening star., 1939-09-04
Paris
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hours before fighting was announced
10 have started.
French reports here were that
British planes, during the night.
dropped ''one million tracts" printed
in German declaring that the Ger
man government, deliberately and
coldbloodedly,' started the war.
The tracts stated that the Ger
man government refused peace
with honor as well as the material
well-being which President Roose-
welt offered you"
They concluded that Great Brit
ain hopes for peace and is ready
to conclude it with any sincerely
peaceful German government
Officials Confer.
Premier Daladier, VINO also IS war
minister, conferred today with Navy
Minister Cesar Campinchi at the
war ministry on naval operations.
The Premier received Foreign Min
lister Georges Bonnet a half hour
later for review of the diplomatic
situation.
The Stock Exchange opened for
business today. The franc was
steady in bank to-bank transa ctions
this morning, at Ats to the United
States dollar. as compared to Fri
dav's Abs.
The trainload of German diplo-
mats leaving France was halted
on the Belgian frontier at 5 am.
by French authorities to wait there
until the train carrying French
diplomats from Germany had
reached the border.
The French explained they wished
to make sure there would be no
complications and that the trains
should cross the border on their
opposite routes at exactly the same
moment. The French diplomatic
train left Berlin at 8 am.
Reports from Eastern France said
the French forces were getting set
with disposition of covering troops
in and around the Maginot line fac
ing Germany.
Anti-aircraft batteries were said
to have been thoroughly camou-
Haged to met the lightning war;
on wings expected from the east of
the Rhine.
Reports of the movement of troops
told of. French poilus hating BY
roadsides and breakfasting on black
coffee and bread.
News on Athena Late.
Reports of the torpedoirip and
sinking of the British liner Athena
with 1,40O passengers were certain
to create a sensation in Paris. Scan
ty details of the attack arrived too
late for publication in the morning
press, which was given over to
charging Adolf Hitler with respon-
sibility for precipitating another Eu-
ropean war.
Frances obligation to help Poland
came into force technically at s pm.
ul am. E. S. TD yesterday, at
which previously specified time Ger
many had not given q satisfactory
answer" to the French ultimatum
that German troops be withdrawn
from Poland.
Later, Premier Daladier made a
3-minute radio speech characteriz-
ing the German invasion of Poland
"one OF the most brutal and cynical
aggressions" and declaring, "the
cause of France is the cause of JUS
tice."
France, he said, would triumph.
M. Daladier declared Germany
had met British and French peace
efforts with refusal, and that Ger.
many wishes the destruction of
Poland in order to insure rapidly
her domination of Europe and servi-
tude of France. -
"Frenchmen and Frenchwomen
we are waging war because it is
forced on us. Each of us will be
, at his post on French soil-on that
soil where respect and human dig
nifty finds one of its last refuges.
. "You will all unite your efforts in
, the deep feeling Of union and fra
, ternity to save France. Vive Ia
] France!"
German Stats Leave.
! The German Charge dAf5aire,
and l3o other members Of the Ger.