POLES IN DANZIG

- m NAZI INDIGNATION

SOME RECENT EVENTS

• ■ I A diplomatic protest was made by the Danzig Government to the Polish representative in Danzig (Dr. Papee) against a numbet of recent conflicts between Nazis and Polish citizens of Danzig, and against the attacks of the Polish Press on the Nazi regime in the Free City (reported the Berlin correspondent of the "Manchester Guardian" on November 12). The protest was made by Dr. Bottscher, of the Foreign Affairs Department of the Danzig Government, to Dr. Papee, who, according to reports quoted in the German Press, is to be replaced by another Polish diplomatic representative who will receive special powers and is expected to act more energetically. The ■ incident complained of and a number of other events have evoked indignation in the Nazi Press, though it seems that the extent of the indignation has been officially controlled in the interests of the Polish-German pact. According to the Nazi version of one incident, Danzig detectives found a number of Reich national flags and other Swastika, emblems torn and defiled in an unpleasant manner in a cupboard of a room in the Danzig Sport Palace where a Polish meeting had been held. Three, young Poles have been arrested and are stated to have acknowledged their responsibility. . ANOTHER INCIDENT. In another incident, again according to the Nazi version, a Polish stoneworker was arrested and taken into "preventive arrest" for. insulting the Nazi Storm Troops. The Nazis state, however, that the man is a member of the S.S., and as such comes under the jurisdiction of the party's court. An earlier incident at the weekend was a great procession in the Polish port of Gdynia, in which banners were carried protesting against Nazi rule in Danzig and demanding the removal of the agents of Berlin from Danzig. During the demonstration a speech was made declaring that Danzig should be given to Poland as a birthday present for Marshal Smigly Rydz, the Inspector-General of the Polish Army. The German Press alleges that these incidents and the anti-Nazi ' Press campaign in Poland . are organised provocation, and the Nazi "Angriff" recently asked when Poland intended to end the agitation against Danzig. Whether the German Government intends to take any action remains to be seen. So far reticence has been shown, the hope being that diplomatic representation would close the affair. Press comments, however, contain some strong words. THE POLISH NAVY. Today, the "Borsen Zeitung," an influential paper closely in touch with the German War and Foreign Offices, takes strong exception to an article in a leading Polish contemporary on the Polish naval problem by General Henning-Michaelis, who proposes that Poland must have destroyers and more submarines. "In coming to this conclusion," writes the "Borsen Zeitung," "the General raises the question of the possibility of war in the Baltic, and sees only one Polish opponent—namely, Germany." The Polish aim at sea would be to cut German communications between Germany and East Prussia which, the paper states, the General believes could be effected by destroyer and submarine action. The "Borsen Zeitung" asks the General if the fact has escaped him that for some years a relationship between Germany and Poland exists which makes such discussions wrong arid misplaced, and asks what Poland would think if a high German general published in a serious paper an article upon how Germany would seize the "Corridor" or Gdynia in the event of a Polish attack upon Germany. The paper adds that it is waiting for the expression of the attitude of serious Polish quarters to this "exercise in mischief-makuig."