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Show bill LLitlM yjio Mm U UMy mIovImu Eu e h rerTh reatensWa r Of Horror, Makes Bid For Peace in Address Allies Are Assailed by German Chief at Danzig By FREDERICK C. OECHSNER DANZIG, Sept. 19 (UP) Germany wants to create "a lasting peace" and hat no war aims against either France or England, Adolf Hitler said today to-day in "peace speech" made only 15 miles away from where guni still were thundering. Making the first public pronouncement pro-nouncement since his proclamation proclama-tion sent nail troops surging In Poland on September 1, the German Ger-man chancellor said the reich and Russia will create a situation which will relieve" tension in eastern Europe. "I want to. restore mutual con fldence," Hitler said. "I have no war alms against either France or England." Retaliation Threatened But while It seemed to offer peace. Hitler's speech also carried the threat of a war of redoubled vigor and horror. He threatened. In effect, to loose the German air force against France and Great Britain and he complained of Polish Po-lish atrocities. "I have ordered the German air force to be humane," Hitler said. "If He democratic countries want It differently, they may have it. In this respect, too, my patience Is not unlimited." The German armed forces will retaliate hundreds of times over If bombs ever are dropped on cities in the reich. Hitler said. Those who "dreamed" they could crush Germany, he added, now know that -for every bomb dropped on a German Ger-man city 500 will be dropped In . return. In Carnival Drees Danzig was In carnival dress for the occasion. Flan woro flvinw from hundreds of windows around the market square and swastikas were everywhere. Fifteen miles away, while Hitler spoke, the guns roared as the remnant of the Polish Po-lish army still fought the Germans. Ger-mans. The Polish army has been smashed. Hitler said, adding that 300.000 Poles had been taken prisoner. pris-oner. "On one day 20,000 prisoners were taken," he said, "yesterday 50.000." He charged that thousands of Germans had been victims of Polish Po-lish atrocities and that in some cases the eyes had been gouged out of noncombatants by Polish soldiers sol-diers or civilians. Germany, too, is ready to fight for three years. Hitler said, speaking speak-ing scornful words about the decision de-cision of the British cabinet to (CooUnuad on faga Tarns) IColumn Onai Hitler Threatens Conflict of Horror Prussia was the problem. Finally, it was said that the natural frontier fron-tier of Poland was not the Oder but the Elbe river (deep In Germany). Ger-many). Who Mlsleadsr Hitler said that he had asked himself: "Who can mislead them so greatly?" "The Poles were told that they were able to resist Germany," be went on. ' "They were told they could rely on the help of other powers. "Today It Is said thst the real problem is not Polsnd but the German regime." Hitler referred to British declarations decla-rations in parliament that the war must be waged until "Hitlerism" is ended. Hitler said that "wsr mongers are permitted to talk only in states without discipline." "I have made up my mind to let the German people know about these criminals," he said. The fuehrer pointed out that he believed a solution of the Polish problem could have been reached at the end of August. "I waited-and waited," he said. "Nothing happened except the mobilization in Poland. "Patience should not have been confused with weakness." Must Be an End Hitler said he had "tried again and again" and "year after year" to reach a peaceful solution, but that finally he was forced to warn "that there must be an end to this." "Peace once again could have been saved at that time," he said. "France was ready to agree, but England instead declared an ultimatum." ul-timatum." "The Germany of today cannot be expected to accept any ultimatum. ulti-matum. That day is past I did not send any ultimatum to the Poles." Hitler denounced what he called false propaganda abroad concerning concern-ing the "inferiority" of German arms. The western democracies told Poland of this purported Inferiority, In-feriority, he said, and thus misled her. Eighteen days have passed since the war started, he said, citing a Biblical quotation to the effect that "God beat them" with horse and man. . "This was never more appropriate," appropri-ate," he said. Many Prisoners The fuehrer drew for his cheering cheer-ing audience a picture of "endless columns of defeated Poles" being marched away as prisoners. "The Polish army has had to capitulate," he said. "On one day 20,000 prisoners were taken; yesterday yes-terday 50,000." He said that "those who dreamed" they could crush the German army now know that for every bomb dropped on a German city five will be dropped in return. re-turn. Hitler, announcing the capture of 300,000 Polish troops, charged that the "dirtiest acts" of the last decade had been committed in Poland Po-land and asserted to his audience that the Polish government has "admitted this" in their own radio broadcasts. He referred to charges that "thousands of . women and children chil-dren have been slaughtered." telling tell-ing his audience that bodies had been found with the eyes cut out Humane Air War The Polish broadcasts, he asserted, as-serted, admitted that German parachutists had been murdered when they landed in Poland, presumably pre-sumably part of the army aerial forces that were dropped by parachute para-chute from planes. "These atrocities are worse than In the last World war," he said. "I have ordered the German aircraft air-craft to be humane in this war. "If the democratic countries want It differently, they may have it. In this respect, too, my patience pa-tience Is not unlimited." (CoaUauad Treat Face Oaa 1 lan for a war of three years' dura-ion, dura-ion, WiU Net Capitulate "So there are people who now ay: "Let us make war for three ears'," Hitler said. Those who Irive millions to death have no 'onscience. If this war should last hree years, we will have some-hing some-hing to say about that too, and t the end of that time there will iot come the word 'capitulation.' " Hitler sought to place most of he blame for the war on . Great iritain. He said that France had een ready for a peaceful settle-Tent settle-Tent of the problems in eastern urope, but that the British had sent an ultimatum." He was re-Tring re-Tring to the British demand that e remove his troops from Poland r risk war. The English statement that ley are waging a war only gainst my regime I personally ike as a compliment," he said. "I m proud to be the object of their tuck." Dansig Stays German This soil will remain German," e fuehrer told a wildly cheering i rong In a specnwelcom!ng nnzigers home to the reich. Deeply moved. Hitler began his eech with an expression of ankfulness for his first 'visit to his German soil." He spoke from a platform erect-I erect-I In the Lange marketplace, in ont of the ancient Danzig Guild ill. The fate of this city has been he fate of Germany," the fuhrer id. 'The World war convinced all us that it should never happen rain," he added. The Versailles treaty. Hitler con-med, con-med, did not solve any proems, proe-ms, but created innumerable w ones. "It was only a question of when e German nation would seek a lution of its own," he said. Jighty-two million people want live and they will live." Replies to Britain "If others say that they have t confidence in the assurances German statesmen, then we ve the right to say that we have ne in their assurances," Hitler id in reply to Britain's charges at the world had lost faith in fuehrer's word. He said that "the stupidity of eatso-called peace forced on the rld" at Versailles caused doubt to whether "the men who made at peace had their senses." All of those territories given to 'land were German," he said, hey owed their cultural impor-ice impor-ice to the German people alone, body In those territories wished become part of Poland." lie said that another 50 years ght have thrown these terrt-les terrt-les "back to barbarism." The lot of Germans in Poland is terrible," he said. "A nation less cultural Importance was en the right to govern a sudor su-dor people.'' Poles Vetted Anger Hitler said that the Poles took port unity to vent their anger lelr inferiority complexes" I tried, however, to find a so-ainst so-ainst "this superior German peo-ion," peo-ion," he said. "I tried to obtain finite frontier limitations. I rked for a peaceful agreement, had an agreement with Pilsud-i Pilsud-i (the late Polish Marshal Jo-h Jo-h Pilsudski). But the German minorities were rsecuted In barbaric ways." Germany, Hitler said, remained great power in spite of the razy" Versailles treaty. This great power had to look while Its nationals were misdated mis-dated by an inferior nation," he id. "No other power would have lerated such a state of affairs long as Germany did. I wonder ist England, France or even nerica would have done In a sim-r sim-r situation." Proposals "Modest" Hitler said that he considered s proposals for solution of the Hsh prblem as "overmodest." "I wanted to spare the German ople and also the Polish people," said. "I wanted to spare them solution by other than peaceful r-ans." He then repeated his demand on land, which the Polish govern-ent govern-ent rejected. They called for re-m re-m of Danzig to the reich, a cor-lor cor-lor across the Polish corridor r Germany and a plebiscite in e corridor areas to decide wheth-they wheth-they would return to Ger-ny. Ger-ny. I don't know what was the ae of mind of the Polish gov-nment" gov-nment" Hitler said. They rejected my proposals. I nnot understand why they did t accept My request to the ilish foreign minister (Colonel set Beck) to visit me in Berlin r a talk was rejected. Instead, he went to London. "We had to read in a Polish vrspaper that Danzig was not e real problem, but that East |