Evening star., 1939-06-30

ueT man IOceS are HleTng tntO
Ddnzig and that Udr materials
are being sent TO the free city
are increasing fears OF attempt
by Hitler soon to recouer Ddnsiq
and the. Polish corridor. Britain
and France hare pledged sup
port for defense OF Poland's inde-
pendence.
BY the Associated Press.
PARIS. June 30-Amid officially
expressed fear of grave times ahead.
Premier Daladier today called the
cabinet to meet tomorrow morning
in session which informed sources
said would deal principally with the
international situation.
Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet
was expected to report on the nego-
tiations at Moscow for a British
French Russian mutual assistance
accord Several financial and eco
nomic DEGREES were slated for ap-
proval.
Reports reaching diplomatic
sources that the NaziS were organiz-
ing their forces for Danzig coup
heightened French anXieties.
Gamelin Near Italy.
The nation looked to her defense
as French diplomatic quarters re-
ceived reports that Germany had
called 600 900 reServiStS to the colors
and that Italian military equip
ment was shutting through the
Brenner Pass.
Gen. Maurice GuStave Gamelin-
head of all French armed forces and
a wlry little man who probably holds
more military power than any
French general since Napoleon-was
near the Italian frontier inspecting
Alpine defenses.
Gen. Joseph Vuillemin, chief of
the nations air forces, was in Corsica
studying the defenses of that
Mediterranean island which is an
admitted object of Italian affections
in Fascist claims for vital space
Gamelin is to join him there this
week end.
Bonnet ReassureS Poles.
Reports that men and officers of
the German Army were moving into
Danzig were said to have resulted
in long conference yesterday at
which Foreign Minister Bonnet as
sured Polish Ambassador Julius
LukasieWicz that Britain and France
would lend automatic military aid
in case of aggression. The reports
Of troop movements into Danzlg
were denied in Germany.
Italian railway troop cars were
said by the Swiss Socialist paper
Berner Tagwacht to be passing con-
tinuously over the Brenner pass into
Germany, to be used to transport
German troops to Italy in case of
war.
National leaders and the press at
tempted to prepare the public for
any eventuality. French COM
mentators called upon the nation
to face the present realities"
Expects Pledges to Be HOnOred.
Louis Frossard, member OF the
Chamber of Deputies, said in his
newspaper La Justice he was con-
vinced Britain and France would
honor their pledges to give aid to
Poland in the event Germany seized
Danzig.
It was Frossard who, interrogating
Premier Daladier on the foreign sit
uation Tuesday, got the jolting reply
that Europe faced the 'gravest
crisis in 20 years.
Frossard expressed the conviction
of other French leaders that the
Nazi Senate of Danzig proposed to
declare it's attachment to Germany
in the near future. If Poland re-
sisted, he said, Germany would have
a pretext for aiding blood brothers
against aggression"
Apparently Chancellor Hitler did
not believe Poland would resist, he
added, or that if Poland did Hitler
counted on Britain and France
bringing pressure on Poland to seek
a local settlement with Germany.
"Is Hitler mistaken?" he asked.
II am convinced he is"
French observers on the Rhine
land frontier reported increased
German troop activities behind the
Siegfried line system of forts op-