FEAR OF WAR IN DANZIG.
RESULT OF NAZI RAID. CITIZENS IN HIDING. (VNITKD I'IIKSK ASSOCIATION —IIY KLFXTItIC TELEUHAPLI —COPYRIGHT-) (Received May 15, 10.15 p.m.) LONDON, May 15. The "Daily Telegraph" says that Danzig lies under the shadow of war because of the seizure by Nazis of trade unions buildings. The people of Danzig are hiding in their houses, and the streets are deserted. Armed police fill the town. There are machine-guns in every corner. Three lorry-loads of German police and two detachments of Nazi .storm troops, arriving in cars and on bicycles, entered Danzig on Friday, raided the Trade Union headquarters, tore down the Socialist Hag, and hoisted the Swastika. The police put a cordon round the area, dispersed the crowd with truncheons, and arrested lierr Brill (leader of the Danzig Socialists), the general secretary of the Trades Unions, and the editor of the "Danziger Volkestimme." A strike called as a protest against the action of the Nazis failed. The Nazis claimed that they had obtained possession legitimately, as the building belonged to the parent organisation in Berlin which had been "Hitlerised." A communique announced that complete order was restored when the Nazi flag was hauled down, after conferences among the League of Nations' Commissioner, the president of the Danzig Senate, and the Nazi leader. The arrested men were released. The Treaty of Versailles established Danzig and the surrounding district as the Free City of Danzig, under the protection of the League of Nations, which appointed a High Commissioner. It is the port to which Poland has access .through the Polish corridor, which divides Prussia in two, and is consequently a source of resentment to Germany.
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Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20856, 16 May 1933, Page 9
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