'A final British effort to avert war has, failed. Tension is" increasing rapidly.
In his interview with Herr Hitler Jat Berchtesgaden yesterday, Sit JNevile Henderson, the British Ambassador, is said to have acquainted the Relchsfuchver with the altitude Jor the Bri and Russia would in Britain's obligations to Poland.
Late last night the official Germai News Agency tseued w statement. that "the Fuehrer left the British Ambassador in no doubt that " the obligations entered into by the Brit-Ish Government cannot induce many to renounce her right to st jup for her vital national interest Herr Hitler's reply to Sir Nevile Henderson is regarded in German political circles as a warning not interfere if Germany should Horced to "defend her vital national Interests."
Sir Nevile Henderson has not yet returned to Berlin, and no information about the Berchtesgaden meeting is available from British sources but it is regarded here as significant Jot the German mood that the Ber-Hin_authorities gave out their abrupt version of the meeting before the British Ambassador returned hero—
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