GERMAN KILLED ON POLISH FRONTIER.

DANZIG CITIZEN.

Contradictory Reports Of

Border Incident.

STERN PROTEST ISSUED

United Tress Association.—Copyright. (Received 10.30 a.m.) LOXDOX, May 21. A German crowd, including many men in uniform, set fire to and destroyed a Polish Customs house on the East Prussian frontier, says a message from Danzig. The occupants fled from the district when the police stated that their safety could not be guaranteed.

The Polish Vice-Commissioner, M. Perowsky, went out to the frontier post at Kalthof to inspect the damage, leaving his car near the station. Five Germans attai'.J the chauffeur, who fired his revolver twice in the air and then fired on the attackers.

Officials- of the Free City give a different version. They say the occupants of the car, in which were recognised the counsellor of the Polish Legation, the president of the Polish railway, and the chief inspector of the Polish Customs, fired on a German bystander, and then escape in a railway engine.

The wounded German later died. The Danzig Senate has protested sternly to the Polish Consul.

Danzig Senate Blames Poles. A Senate communique states -that the victim of the incident was ''a Danzig citizen named Grucbner, shot by a Polish citizen named Murawski without reason." The communique proceeds: "The conduct of Polish Customs inspectors in Kalthof towards German and Danzig women stirred a crowd to demonstrate before the Polish Custom House. No Polish property or person was injured. The police intervened, as a result of which, the affair was liquidated and the Polish diplomatic representative in Danzig was advised to that effect.

"Nevertheless, the counsellor of the Polish Legation in Danzig, M. Perowsky, with several Polish Customs officials, went to Kalthof, despite the fact that the investigation of political incidents is the concern of Danzig officials.

"It was established that the fatal shot at Gruebner came from an occupant of M. Perowsky's car. Gruebner had been at Marienberg all day and was not concerned wjtli the Kalthof demonstration. He left Marienberg by taxi after midnight, was blinded at Kalthof by the lights of M. Perowsky's car and, quitting the taxi in order to ascertain the cause of the trouble, was killed by two shots.

"The occupants of the Polish car left Kalthof in a locomotive in the direction of Dirschau, Poland. Police confiscated the Polish car, in which was found a loaded Mauser pistol and also an empty revolver holster. They established that the fatal shot was fired from a Tolish army pistol. Gruebner and the driver of his taxi were both unarmed."

The frontier post is a total wreck, and it is impossible to check those entering from East Prussia. The sole Polish newspaper in Danzig, the "Gazeta Gdanski," has been banned for three months and two leading Polish journals have been banned for five months. Polish religious processions have been forbidden.

M. Wincentv Witos, who has been twice Prime Minister of Poland, recently returned from ten years' selfimposed exile in order to uphold in the present, crisis the Government he has long opposed, says a message from Warsaw. He has now been re-elected leader of the Peasant party, which numbers 8.000,000. In the course of a speech, he said: "We stand united in defence of our independence:"