Evening star., 1939-06-17
Germany Expected
To Move Against
Poles in 10 Days
Reich Mobilization Slow
Because Of Railways
Deterioration
Bv PERTINAX.

FAhlo, June ~ IN N.A.N Al
Symptoms of a forthcoming inter-
national crisis are becoming more
and more perceptible.
1t may be that press dispatches
about the concentration of German
troops in Slovakia have erred on
the side of exaggeration. Neverthe-
less. competent observers in Berlin
whose qualification cannot be over
looked are convinced that, in about
10 days, military measures on a
large scale, similar to those which
were enforced last year against
Czecho-Slovakia, will be carried out,
this time against Poland.
The bulk of the Reichswehr would
then be massed in the East, while
the Siegfried line would be fully
garrisoned and military screen set
up strong enough to preclude a
Franco-British advance.
1t must be kept in mind that,
owing to the steady deterioration
of the German railways and other
causes, German mobilization works
rather slowly. Therefore, prepara-
tions have to be made without fur
ther delay if Chancellor Hitler is
to be in position this summer to
bring the European crisis to a cli-
max.
Reich to Expel More Jews.
Another fact, of relatively minor
importance, deserves perhaps to be
recorded The Hitlerian government
has expelled or is about to expel
another batch of $4,000 Jews of
Polish origin. Last year it took
step of the same kind at a time
when Polish German relations were
still regulated by the declaration of
January 1884 Thus it is no won-
der that today. following upon can
collation. of that diplomatic act, it
should do it again. But, as result,
public feeling is bound to run all
the higher in Poland. The Polish
Ambassador to France, who visited
Foreign Minister Bonnet on the
frail hope that France might shelter
these new refugees, left rather dis
appointed.
The German governments resolve
is to propagate everywhere the i'm
preston that war conditions are al
ready in existence and, with it, that
the requirements of national de-
fense take precedence over all other
considerations.
AS to the Tientsin developments,
which loom very large in the picture,
so much can be said about the at
titude that Britain and France will
observe, after the full exchange of
views that has taken place between
London and Paris-neither in Tien-
tsin nor elsewhere will any treaty
right be surrendered. At the same
time, not military division or a
naval squadron will be diverted
from European soil or from Euro
pean seas to the Far East, since, to
keep Hitler and Mussolini within
bounds, there is not one single divi-
sion or one single squadron to spare.
Action in China Up to U. s.
Direct and adequate protection OF
European and American interests IN
Chinese treaty ports could be under
taken in the present circumstances
only by the United States Of Amer
lea, and it may be added that the
conclusion reached on that subject
by the London and Paris cabinets
has already been brought to the
knowledge of Washington Ulti-
mately, the fate of European colon
ization in the Asiatic Far East will
be settled in Europe. and British
Prime Minister Chamberlain and
French Premier Daladier are agreed
to act on that principle. But it
does not necessarily mean that, as
against Japan, economic coercion
would not eventually be resorted to.
It is surmised by some that ia
pans initiative in Tientsin may
have been inspired from Berlin and
Rome, the calculation being made
in those capitals that Mr.. Cham
berlain might be disgruntled and
made reluctant at the eleventh hour
to conclude pact of mutual as
sistance with Soviet Russia. 1t is
impossible to prove or disprove that
hypothesis, but it can be stated that
the British and French Premiers
are resolved to pay Moscow the
requisite price and come to terms
with Stain, as it is realized more
and more vividly that any other
chance hardly exists to bring Hitler
and Mussolini to their senses, if
such an achievement does not lie
| hevord the wit of man.