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DANZIG SITUATION BUS NOT WORSENED.

WEEK-END QUIET.

Poland Is Satisfied With British Assurances. HITLER HESITATING? United Press Association. —Copyright. (Received 11.30 a.m.) LONDON". July 2. The situation at Danzig lias not deteriorated though tension persists. Numbers of so-ealled German tourists continue to arrive, but the Polish Government is calm and fully satisfied with British assurances.

The Xazi district leader. Heir Koerster, declared that the populace of Danzig is united to a man in its wish to return to lieimany and would do so. being prepared to make any sacrifice to gain this end. including their lives.

The correspondent of the British United Press at Danzig says: "A casual observer ooiild not regard the Free City' as a smouldering volcano. Everyone \ is enjoying a normal Sunday, and citizens are trekking to the beaches." The Warsaw correspondent ~f the British United Press says that Colonel Josef Beck, the Polish ' Foreign Minis-! ter. had a lengthy conference with M. \ Chodacki. Polish Commissioner for Danzig, who was specially summoned, it is expected that the result of the talk will he a Polish Xote to the Danzig Senate seeking an explanation of the formation of a Free Corps, the installation of anti-aircraft {funs and the storage of food. Colonel Beck, in a statement made to the "Sunday Graphic*' by telephone, said: '"Poland is calm, but determined. No threats will worry us. Whatever happens, our attitude and actions are marked clearly. • | "The situation in Danzig at the ■ week-end is very quiet. We repaid any ! rumours of drastic Xuzi action as being circulated by Nazi sympathisers here. We strongly discount rumours j of <;as masks and big guns—it is all part of a whispering war against us." An emergency decree, issued at Warsaw, makes it compulsory for every house throughout Poland to provide air raid protection before September 1. A commission will be appointed to super- I vise the installations. j Tile belief is growing that Heir Hitler lias deferred his annexation plans in tie face of the energetic a-tion of Britain and Fiance. Point is given j tllis by the reported intention of HejT i Hitler to visit Danzig by warship on .July 2.1. Poland i- not likely to object! to the visit, against which there is no j legal obstacle. I (ierinany has notified Poland that the cni'wer Konigj-herg will visit Danj zig on .Tilly 2:1 '"in connection with the , commemoration of the Battle of TannenI berg." The notification of the cruiser's visit is in accordance with the statute under which Poland must be informed of the visit of any foreign warship to the Free City. A message from Munich states that Heir Hitler has left that city to attend the State funeral of (icneral Knochenhauer at Hamburg. It is understood the Hungarian Regent. Admiral Horthy. with the authority of the Pope and Kijjnor Mussolini, is attempting to mediate in the crisis.

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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 154, 3 July 1939, Page 7

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DANZIG SITUATION BUS NOT WORSENED. Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 154, 3 July 1939, Page 7

DANZIG SITUATION BUS NOT WORSENED. Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 154, 3 July 1939, Page 7