Evening star., 1939-09-30
Britain B Completes
Registration for
Food Rationing
Chamberlain Expected to
Answer Germun-Soviet
e Overture Next Week
BY the Associated Press.

Overture Next Week
By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Sept. 30.-Authorita-
tive sources declared today Britain
,woulo reject enphatically Adolf
Hitler's offer of peace at the price
of partitioned Poland.
The government-to all appear
ances-went ahead with mobiliza-
ton of its entire fighting power for
q finish fight with Germany.
An army Of 5000 census-takers
completed a register of some 49,
100000 persons in England. Scot
land and Wales to provide the basis
for food rationing and conscription
of 'manpower for war.
A formal reply to what the Brit
ish press called Hitler's peace
threat" was deferred by the war
cabinet, pending consultation with
France, Britain's ally against Ger
many.
~ Chamberlain to Answer.
Prime Minister Chamberlain was
expected to give the official reaction
- the German-Russian agreement
u q statement before the House
U Commons Monday or Tuesday
~ The London Times, which often
&ells the course of British policy,
today limited that the government
var aims do not necessarily include
Restoration to Poland of her terri
tory now occupied by Russia.
While asserting there can be
no peace with Hitler the Times
said British relations with Stain
Twill be decided by events" It said
the latest Russian-German line
s'restricts the Russian share of
Ethnic Poland"
. Russia takes over in the main
white Russians and Ukrainians,"
the paper continued. Germany ac-
.quires additional territory with a
population indubitably Polish and
Seeks to enlarge the now miscel-
aaneous Reich with lands whose
claim to liberty and independence
5 absolute"
go It added that freedom and inde-
pendence for the Polish nation,
within a frontier as unchallenge-
able as that which Germany vio-
lated on September l and with full
and guaranteed access to the sea.
constitute in their own right an
article of any conceivable peace"
The Times also led the chorus of
the British press demanding rejec-
ton OF any peace proposal based
on the Nazi-Soviet partition of Po-
land.
I'VE have sought no quarrel with
the Soviet and it remains to be seen
whether the Soviet desires to fasten
Q quarrel on us" it added.
Reich Seen in Soviet Grip.
Some diplomatic commentators
contended Germany had been
brought under Russian domination
by the Moscow accord, and they saw
In it as many disadvantages as ad-
vantages for Germany.
Russian production and transpor-
tation facilities, they argued, would
prove insufficient to make up for the
loss of supplies caused by the
British-French blockade of Ger
many.
Commenting along this line, one
source said, Germany Is not likely
to get any more raw materials from
Russia than she would have been
able to get under the original non
aggression pact, nor is it likely that
Russia will give Germany any more
assistance than she would have
given under the original pact"
Food Minister w. S. Morrison, who
announced rationing would start in
few weeks, assured the nation
there would be mo waiting in
queues" The government, he added,
has bought 100000 tons of sugar,
an adequate supply for one year.
The British Press Association re-
ported last night that fire had
broken out on the naval training
ship Caledonia, but that it was "in
no way due to enemy action" Ex-
tent of the damage was not an
nounced.
The ship, formerly the Cunard-
White Star liner Majestic, $1,000 !
tons, was taken oIt of commission |
following the outbreak of war and
docked for extensive alterations as a
training craft.