Evening star. [volume], September 07, 1939, Page A-8, Image 8

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This Changing World
Germans Forecast the Progress in Poland;
British Want to Go Slowly in Attack in West
By CONSTANTINE BROWN.
Highly placed German general
staff officers prognosticated last
month that the campaign against
Poland would be a "Husarenritt”
(a canter into Poland with the speed
of the Hussar cavalry). For the time
being it appears they have not been
far wrong. In less than a week
of hostilities the German Army
has reached all its objectives, and
a little more. Industrial Poland
is in its hands and the fate of
Warsaw seems sealed.
The Poles are going to give their
first battle to the invading army
before their capital. Important forces
are being gathered there. The re
sistance will be fierce, but it will
still be just a rear guard action
on a large scale. Field Marshal
Smigly-Rvoz does not want to en
gage his main forces yet. It is on
the eastern bank of the Vistula
that the Poles expect to show their
mettle.
The loss of Krakow and other in
dustrial centers leaves the Poles in
a somewhat precarious position as
far as war material is concerned.
They have ample supplies for the
time being, but none to spare. Be
ing cut off from the rest of the
world, they know they cannot lose
airplanes, tanks and artillery on
foolish heroic demonstrations. Be
hind the Vistula they can take up
positions wmcn nave Qeen preparea
In advance and offer a stiff re
sistance to the invading army while
waiting for some real action on the
western front.
* * * *
That action is bound to come, but
it may be slow. The French, more
impulsive and impatient than the
British, would like to administer
some serious blows—regardless of the
price. The French general staff feels
humiliated because it can do noth
ing for its hard-pressed ally.
The more phlegmatic British are
getting ready as fast as they can,
but don't want anything but skir
mishes for the present.
The slowness of the British tac
tics is due to two factors: One, they
consider that any impulsive attempt
to damage the Siegfried line which
might fail is likely to be very dam
aging to the morale of the British
and the French populations, and.
two, they are still on the offensive
diplomatically.
* * * *
Although diplomatic quarters re
port little, it is known here that
since last week the British repre
sentatives in Rome and at Belgrade
have been making frantic efforts to
get the Italians and the Yugoslavs
to adopt a definitely friendly atti
tude toward the allies. They are
using promises and threats in Rome
and promises and cash in Belgrade.
The thing in a nutshell is this. If
Italy goes with Britain she will not
be required to fight. In exchange
for territorial compensations in
Africa she would be required to open
the Adriatic to the British and the
French so they could send troops
and war materials into Yugoslavia.
If Mussolini should not want to
lend himself to this game, he is
being warned the French will attack
Italy. He is also given to under
stand that Yugoslavia might be in
duced to join the allies in a war
against Italy, for the Yugoslvas still
have a covetous eye on Flume and
Trieste.
The Italians are also told that the
war would be waged against them
on all fronts, in Europe and North
Africa. It is rumored from Paris
that Gen. Maurice Gamelin may be
sent soon to take command of the
French forces in Africa. Ethiopia
could be as easy prey as would be
Tripoli and Cyrenaica.
* * * *
This threatening and cajoling, the
British say, would completely lose
its effect if a determined action
against the Siegfried line were be
gun and failed. It would not help
the Poles in any way, because there
is a large reserve army in Germny
ready to rush to the western front
in case of need. But it would hope
lessly destroy any possibility of
coercing Italy.
Hence the British advice to the
Fiench: “Let's not be impatient and
impulsive. This is going to be a
long war if we don’t detach Italy
from the Reich, but we are bound to
win in the end regardless of what
happens now to Poland. Or it is
going to be a short war if we handle
the situation carefully and manage
to get II Duce s friendly neutrality.”
GEN. SMIGLY-RYDZ.
Rome
(Continued From First Page.)
and its military alliance still are
functioning.
Italy's .non-intervention during
these days in which Germany has
no apparent need of her help, most
of them thought, is part of a pre
arranged plan of Hitler and Mus
solini.
Many Italians are expressing the
belief that, if France were weakened
by a long struggle against Germany,
Italy then would enter the conflict
against her.
On the other hand, the course
taken by Italy leaves the way open
for Mussolini to act differently
should, for example, France and
Britain launch a terrific and effec
tive offensive on Germany.
Diplomats also are of the opinion
that Mussolini is watching the
United States closely.
If he feels that the United States,
with its enormous xesources, is likely
to enter tfle war, he may be more
cautious about entering it on Ger
many’s side, they say.
Italy’s war preparations were ad
vanced a step by a law ordering
ammonium nitrate plants to be kept
at peak efficiency. The plants,
which are being enlarged, were
ordered to be ready for top pro
duction by the end of December or
suffer 10.000 lire (about $520) fine
and possible closure.
The guilds ministry was em
powered to order the companies
to produce ammonium nitrate for
agricultural purposes. It Is used
also in the manufacture of ex
plosives.
Silver Spring Registration
Declaration of intention and reg
istration for new voters will be held
tomorrow from 7 to 10:30 p.m. at the
County Building in Silver Spring,
Md.
Post Office Department
Reroutes Mail Abroad
By the Associated Press.
Acting Postmaster General W. W.
Howes said yesterday that in the face
of less frequent direct steamship
service to Great Britain and Prance
the Post Office Department was at
tempting to expedite mail and parcel
post to these countries.
The absence of direct steamship
service to Germany and Poland re
quires that mail for those countries
be sent to other nations for for
warding.
Mr. Howes said mail to Poland
would be routed through Rumania
and mail to Germany would be dis
patched to Amsterdam.
Farm Inspection Tour
Special Dispatch to The Star.
FAIRFAX, Va„ Sept. 7.—A tour of
various farms for an inspection of
hybrid strains of corn will be con
ducted by Fairfax County Agricul
tural Agent J. E. Beard tomorrow.
The tour will bpgin at 8 a m. at DtI
las Hutchinson’s store at Chantilly,
Mr. Beard said, and will continue a.^
long as visitors are interested.
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More Defense Needed,
Barbour Tells Legion
Br the Associated Press.
CAPE MAY, N. J„ Sept. 7.—United
States Senator W. Warren Barbour,
Republican, of New Jersey, said In a
prepared speech before the New Jer
sey State convention of the Amer
ican Legion today that this country
should strengthen its land, sea and
air defences immediately, hunt down
and prosecute foreign spies and ad
vance the Nation's foreign policies
carefully in view of the war in
Europe.
"I feel very strongly that the
United States should not again bear
arms in Europe and I join with mil
lions of my countrymen in the fer
vent hope that we will never do so
again," he said.
2,300,000 Share 10 Names
England has just found that over
2,300,000 of its people share 10 sur
names, Smith, Jones. Brown. Taylor,j
Davis, Wilson, Lewis, Walker, Morris
and Wright.
D. C. Boy, Home From Abroad,
Offered $350 Profit for Ticket
W. B. Alexander
Tells of Conditions
And Rush for U. S.
Ticket scalpers would have had a
field day at Boulogne, France, the
day the Holland-American Line’s
Veendam sailed for America, accord
ing to William B. Alexander, 20-1
year-old Princeton University Junior,
of 1834 Kenyon street N.W., who
arrived in New York aboard the
liner yesterday.
On a student tour of Europe dur
ing the summer, young Alexander
said today that when he and his
party of 26 students prepared to go
aboard the Veendam they were of
fered upward to $350 profit for
their one-way tickets by hundreds of
Americans stranded in the French
port.
England and France declared war
while the Veendam was at sea, but
wfbtlAM B. ALEXANDER.
—Star Staff Photo.
William said the passengers experi
enced little anxiety in the crossing, i
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hough they listened to news bul
etins by radio.
High lights of his tour, sponsored
>y Student International Travel As
lociation, were related by William,
iccording to countries, as follows:
In England: "An old lady on a
London bus told me her countrymen
felt sure America would help in
case of war.”
In Germany: "A Nazi trooper con
fidentially stated to me early in the
lummer that Danzig would be taken
>n July 18. * • * German newspapers
said all that American college boys
learn in college is how to eat gold
fish. * • * The army appeared to be
/ery well trained. Women worked
while men and children drilled.
In Italy: “Alongside Germany’s
troops, the Italian forces appeared
slovenly and lazy.”
William, in Germany more than
half of the time spent on the con
tinent, said he is “yet to see a Ger
man smile.”
Trujillo Sails
From Europe
On His Yacht
Unable to book passage on a regu
lar liner, Dr. Rafael L. Trujillo, for
mer president of the Dominican Re
public, is reported on the high seas
aboard his 225-foot yacht, the Ram
fls, on his way back to America from
the European war zone. The yacht
is flying the neutral Dominican flag.
Trujillo, recently accorded official
courtesies during a visit to this
country, left Lisbon for New York
several days ago, tho Dominican
Legation was advised yesterday by
Teodulo Bina Chevalier, Dominican
minister to Spain
The former president was accom
panied by about a dozen friends, In
cluding the wife of President Jacinto
B. Peynado, her three daughters,
Dr. Francisco Benzo, secretary of
DUblic health, and two Americans.
Gen. Trujillo cut short a vacation
in Southern France and Italy after
the outbreak of hostilities. His wife,
two-month-old daughter and 10
year-old son previously had sailed
aboard a passenger liner.
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