Evening star., 1939-08-25
Russiu Is Pressing
Warsaw to Yield
To Germany
By LOUIS p. LOCHNER,

BY LOUIS p. LOCHNER,
Associated Press Foreign Correspondent.
BERLIN, Aug 25.-Talk of new
peace offer in the German-Polish
conflict were renewed this afternoon
when news spread through the capi-
tai that the British Ambassador, Sir
Neville Henderson, had been closeted
with Adolf Hitler in the early after
noon.
Later the Fuehrer received the
Ambassadors of France, Italy and
Japan. The nature of the talks was
not revealed.
Nondon was sWamped with
optimistic rumors this evening
after it had been learned that
Hitler had sent for Sir Neville
this afternoon and had talked
to him energetically for IA
hours, the Chicago Daily News
reported. At the foreign Office
1t was said that no instructions
whatsoever had been sent. to
Henderson and that no report
had yet been received from him.
No one here would intimate the
nature of the conversation between
Sir Neville and Hitler. which oc-
Cured shortly after l pm. q am,
E. S. To.
Earlier German sources said the
Soviet Ambassador in Warsaw was
endeavoring to prevail upon Poland
peacefully to give in to German
demands.
Polish Moves Reported.
The German Official news agency,
DNB, reported late today that the
German intelligence service has as
certained a half dozen Polish divi-
sions were on the frontier of East
Prussia and eastern provinces of the
Reich.
DNB said preparations made by
the Poles Cannot be considered of
a defensive nature"
1t was said that the Poles brought
up much cavalry within striking dis
tance of the border and that this
indicated an offensive action was
contemplated.
The Berlin evening newspaper
Nachtausgabe in dispatch from
Maehrische-Ostrau, Germany, de-
clared that Polish insurgents" shot
and killed seven Germans and one
Czech national at Bielitz, across the
Polish border.
The newspapers correspondent re-
ported that the Poles rounded up
25 Germans and several Czechs at
Bielitz Thursday morning on charges
of subversive activities.
Loaded into trucks, the arrested
men tried to flee into nearby
forest when one of the vehicles
swerved from the road, the news
paper account asserted.
The insurgents Immediately fired
several volleys, instantly killing
eight and seriously wounding seven
others, the dispatch said.
Hope for Peace Is Keynote.
Hope for peaceful settlement
through eleventh-hour capitulation
of Poland and her guarantors, Great
Britain and France, was the keynote
in official quarters here.
Competent sources expressed be-
lief Germany had decided to post
pone military action, at least for
one more day.
This decision may have been TAX
en- at long conference lasting un-
til / am. among Hitler, Foreign
Minister Won Ribbentrop, Field Mar
shal Hermann Goering and Gen.
Wilhelm Keitel, Hitler's closest mil
itary adviser.
Reported pressure on Poland
through the Soviet Ambassador to
Warsaw, German efforts to bring
Russia and Japan into a non-aggres-
sion treaty and to persuade Turkey
to turn her back on her new alliance
with Britain we're the cards Ger
many was playing in Ter hopes of
getting what she wants without
bloodshed.
The Presidents message suggest
ing that Poland and Germany settle
their differences either through di-
rect negotiations, by arbitration or
by conciliation was studied by the
Fuehrer in the Reich's chancellory
this morning.
Answer Expected Tonight.
The first answer is expected to be
made public tonight, probably
through the foreign Office mouth
piece, the Deutsche Diplomatische-
Politische correspondent.
Excellent sources said the reply
would be negative in tone with the
implication that President Roosevelt
had sent his plea Ito the wrong ad-
dress"
"It should have gone" these
sources said, ito England"
Whether Hitler would send Presi-
= dent Roosevelt direct private reply
or merely answer publicly as he did
Roosevelt's last message in April, ap-
parently had not been determined.
In any case, leading Nazis gave the
message shrug of the shoulder re-
ception and withheld comment in
the hope that before today ends Po-
land will accede to Hitler's demands.
Some amaZement was exnresSed in