BORDERS CLOSED.

POLISH AND GERMAN.

Tension Increased By Campaign

Of Villification.

SEVERAL HUNDRED ARRESTS.

United Press Association. —Copyright. (Received 1 p.m.) LONDON, August 16. The action o£ the Polish authorities in closing last night the PolishGerman border in Upper Silesia has increased the tension. The border was closed when a contingent of the German minority belonging to the Nazi Young German party tried to flee across the frontier. The Polish police arrested several hundred for alleged activities endanger* ing the State. ,

Frontier incidents continue to keep feeling high on both sides. Polish frontier guards arc ordered to shojt at sight any unauthorised persons who cross the frontier. It is reported from Gleiwitz that large numbers of German troops, with regimental numbers concealed by pieces of cloth, arrived on the Polish frontier. Officers were wearing field caps and sidearms.

The Germans declare Poles disorganised railway traffic across the border and stopped Polish miners from entering Germany for their normal day's work, as a reprisal for the killing of a Polish policeman in a scuffle at a border station.

On the contrary, the Poles assert that the Germans disrupted telephones at Rybnik and stopped border traffic to ensure secrecy for troop movements and fortification work.

The German papers are featuring stories of Germans fleeing to the Reich from Polish persecution, in a manner reminiscent of the Press tactics over Sudetenland.

It is officially stated from Warsaw that the Germans closed the frontier in the Opole district of German Silesia and the Rybnik district of Polish Silesia, and that Poles in German Silesia have been deprived of passports, and Polish shops closed. It is understood the measures' apply only to the Polish minority. Polish political quarters are sceptical that any "formula" can be found for Danzig while Herr Hitler maintains his demand for its incorporation in the Reich. .

German guards at Dtfnirig shot dead a Polish soldier who refused to halt after entering '-a Free City territory.