The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-18

Docs the district governor believe that Germany will permit him to outlaw all Germans and make them free game for Polish robbers?
 That is an enormous error. The situation today appears already to be uncomfortable. We advise those who are responsible to be careful"
 Must Have Corridor It was asserted more openly and more firmly taht Germany now must have the Polish corridor which is Polands outlet to the sea, and that there must be no conferences or compromises.
 Charges of terrorism against mi- nority Germans began to take on the exact tone of those that pre- ceded the Sudeten crisis year ago. Now Nazis asserted that thousands of Germans were fleeing the "ter- ror," as 1t had been alleged last year that they fled the terror" in Czechoslovak Sudetenland.
 Polish terror against Germans continues without diminution," said the official news agency. Every where those Germans who have not been arrested have been compelled to hide in the woods or in other refuges to escape the hatred of the Poles. The number of arrests swells hourly and already is well over 1000.
 "The number of German minority fugitives from Poland, up to the be- ginning of August, reached 76,535. For the majority of refugees tempo rary work was found in Germany. At the moment about 4,461 people have been accommodated in 19 ref ugee camps"
 Germans Flee Poland Nazi sources asserted that refugees had been fleeing from Poland at the rate of 4,200 week for the last two months.
 The newspaper National Zeitung of Essen, personal organ of Field Marshal Hermann Goering, Nazi No. 2, said today:
 "One doec not negotiate with someone (Great Britain) whom a question does not concern, and who already has decided for better or worse on war If the question arises as practical proposition.
 Meanwhile we assume that Brit ain has taken cognizance of the fact that the Reich is determined, one way or another and in any case without compromise, to solve a question whose acute urgency is proved these very days by a brutal wave of attacks against minority Germans living in the Polish Cor ridor."
 The growing moment of the situa- tion was emphasized by reports that the British and French am- bassadors, in visits to the foreign office this week, had expressed the attitude of their governments in positive" terms.
 Could Be Settled
 It was part of puzzling situa- tion that despite the hardening of the Nazi attitude, Nazis insisted that 1t must be settled Germany's way.
 They said that any attempt by Poland or the western powers allied with it to persuade Adolf Hitler to accept compromise DaIzig settle ment, providing for alteration of the free city's status over the next two or three years, would be re- jected.
 They said that apparently Hitler had not set time limit for a set clement, but again they added the publication that he was determined to clear up the whole German Polish issue without further delay.
 Italy Will Aid Germany
 Rome. Aug. 18.-(UP). .-Newspa- per intimated today that Italy would actively side with Germany in event of general conflict aris- ing from the Danzig dispute.
 A decree in the official gazette last night had said that sub-officers and soldiers now serving in Albania would be maintained under the colors due to "exigencies of an ex- ceptional character"
 Premier Benito Mussolini dis cussed military problems yestreday with Marshal Pietro Badoglio, chief of the general staff.
 The newspaper Corriora Della Sera of Milan said on the Danzig problem:
 Poland should solve the Danzig problem herself through negotia- ton with Germany. This is the road of logic and reality. Should Poland choose the road to war in- stead, should she risk her very ex- istence by refusing to recognize German rights, then 1t is superfluous to repeat that in case of general war Italy will full her duty at the side of Germany"
 Toronto, Ont, Aug. 18-(UP)- The Toronto Globe & Mail today quoted Hans Leonhardt, exiled Democratic leader of Danzig, as saying war over the free city and the Polish Corridor was "inevtible within six weeks at the most"
 Leonhardt spoke by telephone from London, Ont, the newspaper said, where he is visiting Dr. Arnold Bernstein, radiologist who left Dan- zig a year ago. Leonhardt is on a United States lecture tour.
 "The alternative to war are either blank surrender to Hitler or war;" the former Danzig leader said. Hit Ter will not back down.
 T feel certain war over Danzig and the corridor is inevitable wth- in six weeks at the most. Should the Democracies surrender to Hitler, however, on this latest demand 1t mean only that war had been post poned, for probably year, but it is a war that must come If Hitler remains chancellor of Germany. I know definitely from friends who have talked with him that Hitler is absolutely determined to wage war if necessary to gain Nazi supremacy in Europe.
 That s not simply talk, not gos- sip, but the hard. sad fact" Germany Preparing
 Paris, August IS. - (UP) - Re- ports reacher semi-official French quarters today of uninterrupted mill itary preparations throughout Ger