Warsaw, May 10.
N apparently inspired article, published in the "Express Poranny today, states that an attempt at a one-sided solution of the Danzig problem, as the rumour of the desire of Danzig to return to the Reich, is destined to failure.
1f it is desired to arrange a plebiscite in Danzig, the article adds, it will indicate that a plebiscite should first have been held in Bohemia and Moravia.
It is announced that the authorities have expelled 13 Germans from the Polish frontier zone, in the vicinity of Posnan, on a charge of spreading false rumours and disloyalty.
Two women have been expelled from the frontier zone in the Polish Corridor for illegal activities against the State, while six Germans have been sentenced at Lodz to two months' imprisonment for attempting illegally to cross the frontier in the Posnan district.—Reuter.
London, May 10.
Despite Italy's support of the Pope's recent peace initiative, the Reich will reject the Vatican's proposals for a five-power conference to discuss the German-Polish dispute. Such was the gist of semi-official reports received from Berlin and discussed this afternoon at a meeting of the Cabinet's Foreign Affairs Committee, it was revealed in reliable quarters.
According to the same circles, Italy went so far as to support the Pope officially. But since the Reich will reject the initiative, Rome will not disclose its attitude because it does not wish to reveal the divergence of the axis powers.
British Parliamentarians, comment. ing on these reports, stated today that the Reich's rejection of the conference proposal would not be very regrettable because the latter would raise difficulties in execution.
It would have created "rather a difficult situation for France and Poland," they stated. Nevertheless, should the Reich change its decision, neither Britain nor France will oppose the conference project, they con-
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