Evening star., 1939-10-19

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, Oct. 19.-Adolf Hitler
today announced the formal annex
alton of Pomorze, Pommerelen and
Polish Upper silesia, conquered Pol
ish provinces, to his expanding
Reich.
Two new gau, or administrative
districts, were created by his decree,
signed October but published to-
day. These are West Prussia and
Posen. For each gau one Reichs-
statthalter, or governor. will be ap-
pointed by the Fuehrer.
The seat of the West Prussian
governor will be Danzig, the one
time Free City which Hitler in
corporated in Germany on Septem-
ber l, when his armies marched
into Poland.
The city of Posen will be the
capital of the district of that name
Returns Pre-War German Areas.
The annexation returns to Ger
many parts of Poland which be-
longed to the Reich before the World
War and were detached by the Ver-
sailles treaty in creation of the Po-
lish republic.
The territory comprises about
$4,000 square miles, less than one
third of the part of Poland which
Germany took In dividing the con-
quered nation with Soviet Russia.
The annexation decree left undeter-
mined the eventual fate of some So
600 square miles of Central Poland
which has been occupied by Ger
many up to the new Soviet frontier.
The city of Danzig and surround
ing territory, which before the Ger
man invasion was free city under
League of Nations control. previously
had been annexed by Hitler.
The province of East Prussia is to
be augmented by small section of
Poland centering around Zichenau,
formerly known as Zielun.
Inhabitants OF the annexed
regions will become German citizens
if they can qualify under the Reich's
strict anti-Semitic racial laws. Local
laws of the regions will continue
in force where they do not conflict
with German laws.
Hitler's decree Is to become effec-
tive November l.
West Prussia will be subdivided
into the departments of Danzig,
Marienwerder and Bromberg. Posen
will consist Of the departments Of
Hohensalza, Posen and Kalisch.
Former Polish Upper Silesia be-
comes the department of Kattowitz
OF the province Of silesia.
French Declared Expelled.
The army high command an
nounced earlier that the first phase
of the war on the western front
had ended with complete with
drawal of French troops from Ger
man soil and underlined the fact
that German forces stopped at the
French frontier.
Germany thus took new tack to
let France know she had no quar-
rel with her neighbor and she was
described as believing that reserve
in pursuing the western campaign
would speak louder now than any
new peace offer.
Operations on the western front
to date were minimiZed through
cut the high commands COM
munique.
German tactics from the begin
ming of the war have been to make
a sharp distinction between France
and Great Britain.
Meanwhile, Dienst aus Deutsch-
land, commentary which has close
relations with the foreign Office,
once again said Germany did not
intend to make any new peace
offers now.
"Hitlers Reichstag speech con-
tanned everything that could be said
by Germany regarding readiness for
peace, on what this readiness was
based and what the Reich's pro-
gramatic aims are" it said.
Germany was held to believe that
it was up to the enemy or to neu-
trails to make the next move toward
truce
Short, Bitter Fighting.
The high command said French
troops left German soil after short
but bitter fighting.
This action, communique said,
(See RERI,TN PAGE A-4O