Evening star., 1939-10-02
Chamberlain Delays
House Statement
On Peace Move
(Tert OF Mr.. ChurchilPs speech
on Page A-5.)

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Oct. "A night recon-
naissance flight by British planes
over Berlin was marked up today
on the credit side of Britain's war
time ledger.
Announcing the first British flight
over the German capital, the all
ministry said that successful air
reconnaissances by day and night
had been carried out over Germany
and that the night reconnaissance
included Berlin and Potsdam. There
were no other details
Announcement of the reconnais
sance flight over Berlin was fol-
lowed by assurance to the House OF
Commons that any German planes
which try to raid London will get
the reception they deserve"
Laborite Josiah Wedgwood had
sought detailed reports of the effects
of German bombings in Poland
The foreign undersecretary gave
assurances on London's readiness
for air raids in answering, but said
detailed reports on Poland were not
available.
Chamberlain Delays Statement.
Prime Minister Chamberlain in
formed Commons that he would
wait until tomorrow to tell members
what the government thought of
the Russian-German partition of
Poland and of the peace gestures
emanating from Berlin. Mr.. Cham
berlain will give the House his fifth
war review tomorrow
Great Britain strengthened her.
self, meanwhile, for hostilities on
the World War scale, apparently in
tending to ignore any Nazi-Com-
munist peace offer.
The first official reaction to indi-
cations that Adolf Hitler would pro-
pose through a neutral power that
the war be called off on a basis
of the partition of Poland came
from Winston Churchill, British
first lord of the admiralty. Mr..
Churchill told Britons last night,
I'VE are going on to the end"
DuIChudTut W COnIcT.
Prof. Carl j. Burckhardt, League
Of Nations high commissioner for
the former Free City of Danzig, now
reincorporated within Germany, ar
rived from Geneva last night and
arranged for a conference today
with Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax.
Meanwhile, King Georges first
proclamation under the armed
forces act approved by Parliament
at the outbreak of the war, raised
Britain's men called to the colors
almost to potential 100000.
The King called up for service
about 250,000 additional soldiers,
summoning all youths between the
ages of 20 and % to register for
military service at date to be set
later. About 100000 who reached
the age of 20 before last June 3
already had been registered under
the conscription introduced before
the war started.
Fight in Air Reported.
An information ministry COM
munique told of a dogfght yester-
day over Germany's Siegfried line
between five Royal Air Force planes
and Is German air fighters. It ac-
knowledged that three British war
planes were shot down during an
intense battle of more than half an
hour and that another made a forced
landing. But it said that eight of
the IL men in the British crews were
observed escaping by parachute.
The British squadron leader, the
communique said, finished his recon-
naissance assignment by lodging
and banking while a gunner in the
tail OF his plane poured a steady
fire into pursuing German planes.
1t said two German planes were
shot down and the others, shaken
by the gunner's steady and accurate
fire." gave up the fight.
The nation heard its red-haired
admiralty chief broadcast in voice
that burned with defiance.
1T was for Hitler to say when
the war would begin," Mr.. Churchill
declared, "but it is not for him or
his successors to say when it will end.
1T began when he wanted it and
1t will end only when we are cor
vinced that he has had enough"
He told the nation that "a large
army has already gone to France"
and that British armies upon the
scale of the effort of the Great War
are in preparation"
How soon Britain might achieve