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TENSION RECURS.

FRONTIER SHOOTING. Danzig Senate Apologises To Poland. HITLER PEACE PLAN HINT. United Press Association.—Copyright. (Received 11 a.m.) LOXDOX, July 20. The Gorman news agency reports that h Danzig Customs official shot and wounded a Polish border guard near Posielau. It is alleged that the Pole was >t«ndinpr »n Polish territory and tired without warning, at which the Dan/.iger tired in self-defence. The shoot inrr ) las snidclt-til v increased tension. Tin- Danzig Senate apologised to Poland, where the incident is regarded Ms nn inexcusable provocation. A Warsaw message said the Dan/.ipolice arrested a Polish Army nftieer. Colonel Sobocinski. He was* released Inter. It is alleged that lie contravened a prohibition against navigating in a military area. Herman sapper* are speeding up antitank defence- facing the Poli-di frontier near the port of (.ydi.ia, anil military lurries without ivgistration platebr night -JO anti-tank guns and aninuini tion to Danzig. Several hundred soldiers took part in military exercises at Langfiihr. which i< a suburb of Danzig, wearing fieldgrey uniforms with the S.S. (Seliiitzstiitrel, Hitler's "private army") and also the swastika on their steel helmets. They carried new rifles. A Merlin message states that Hen Hitler will again confer with Danzig leaders at. Rerehtesgadcn next week. N'a/.i circles are again alluding to a Hitler plan for a peaceful Danzig.

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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 170, 21 July 1939, Page 7

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TENSION RECURS. Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 170, 21 July 1939, Page 7

TENSION RECURS. Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 170, 21 July 1939, Page 7