Evening star., 1940-06-28
Cannon Speaking,
Nazis Answer Report
OF Peace FeeIers
Move Held Useless as Iona
As Churchill Aims to
Fight War to Finish
BY LOUIS p. LOCHNER,

by LOUIS L. LOLHNEk,
Associated Press War Correspondent.
BERLIN, June 28.-Germany's Te-
ply to any peace feelers from London
is an unequivocal statement that
"cannons are speaking" authorized
sources said today.
These sources declared that if cer-
tain British circles are endeavoring
to bring about peaceful settlement
with Germany, these overtures are
of no account to the Reich so long
as British Prime Minister Winston
Churchills government keeps saying
1t wants war to bitter finish.
THAT is the war we are giving
them" these sources said.
Germany completed the seizure of
the French western coastal region
yesterday, the high command re-
ported. Fast detachments advancing
along the coast reached the Spanish
border south of Bayonne.
The high command acknowledged
further British raids on Germany
and on the Dutch and Belgian coast
yesterday and last night 1t said
several persons were killed or
wounded by British bombs.
For their part, the Germans re-
ported successful air bombardments
of armament plants and port facil-
tiles in Southern and Central Eng
land last night.
Four persons, including three chill
dren, were killed and 10 others seri-
ouSly wounded when a British plane
raldlng the Ruhr industrial area
Wednesday dropped eight bombs on
the city of Herne, the official Ger
man news agency DNB reported.
The bombs hit apartment houses,
the report said.
Up to Churchill.
The authorized sources comment
ing on peace rumorS in London said
the Churchill government, after all
had the power in its hands while
other circles, no matter how influ-
entlal and how well connected they
might be with friends in Germany,
could not speak for Britain aLthori-
tatively.
"We have no reason to attach
Importance to all these rumors of
peace feelerS emanating from Lon
don," one of these sources said. "On
the contrary, it often looks to us as
though the Churchill government
itself launched these rumors in order
to have straw man to knock down
afterward. Chamberlain former
Prime Minister Neville Chamber
lain), for instance, vigorously denied
he is at odds with Churchill. yet
the peace rumors were based on an
alleged disagreement between these
two statesmen"
The authorized sources called at
tention to the fact that Hitler made
a peace offer at Danzig on the con-
Clusion of the Polish campaign last
fall. They said his outstretched
hand was rejected
Germany, according to these
sources, in no way feels that her
interest in Southeastern Europe is
affected adversely by the Russian
demands on Rumania.
Germany's interests in Southeast
Europe are of economic nature and
political demands by Russia on Ru-
mania do not change the situation,
they said.
1t was evident from the attitude
of these sources that Germany and
Italy were well aware of Soviet Rus
sia's move in Southeastern Europe
just as they had been advised re-
garding Russian moves in the Bal
tic states.
Asked whether the Russian move
might not start things generally in
Southeast Europe, including de-
mands by Hungary and Bulgaria on
Rumania, these sources insisted
that Germany has no such fears.
The principal powers with an in
terest in the Balkans-obviously
meaning Germany and Italy chiefly
were represented as determined to
keep this region out of war.
The Danubian countries play an
important part in Germanys plans
to support her population and OBJ
tain supplies to carry on the var
despite the British sea blockade.
Hence, it was assumed generally
that Adolf Hitler would place his
influence on the side of peaceful
adjustment of the ancient and con-
f1icting claims embroiling the Bal
kans.
Versailles Anniversary Recalled.
German newspapers called atten-
ton to the 21st anniversary today of
what they called the criminal
treaty of Versailles.
Hitler's Voelkischer Beobachter
commented that, with much of
France occupied, the rest under
German surveillance and England
facing the German war machine
alone, Versailles is dead"
For the first time in weeks, Ger
man sources admitted that British
raiding planes had managed to