FRONTIERS CLOSE.

POLES TAKE ACTION.

Campaign To Stamp Out Nazi

Trouble-makers.

PRESS ATROCITY STORIES

United Press Association.—Copyright. (Received 12.30 p.m.) LONDON*, August 17. Poland has closed the entire frontier of Bohemia and Slovakia, states a Berlin report. The Polish Commissioner, M. Choducki, ha# gone to Danzig, where the Associated Press reports Polish indignation at German persecution. The Polish Press claims that 380 Poles were arrested between January 1 and July 1, while 417 families were forced out of the Free City, and Polish children were ordered to attend German schools. About 130 miles of frontier between Poland and Germany are now closed.

The Danzig Senate protested to Poland against what they said was the second serious violation of the frontier in one day. It was alleged that Poles had fired on a car load of Nazi journalists, but the "firing" was later revealed to be the effect of a boy throwing a stone at a garage window.

Ho ported to have boon the result of the discovery of a widespread plot centred in German Silesia to undermine Polish authority, hundreds of Nazis have been arrested, including Jankowski, leader of the German Workers' Union. Young German Leader Attested. It is announced from Warsaw that Rudolf Weisner, leader of the Young Herman party in Upper Silesia,' and 00 members of the party have been arrested on a charge of espionage.

Weisner is one of the two principal leaders of the German minority in Poland, and is an intimate friend of J)r. Goebbels. He is often called "Silesia's Henlein."

Renter's Warsaw correspondent later stated thßt Weisner and several others had been released.

The arrests presage a sweeping Polish campaign to stamp out trouble-makers. Weisner's detention has created a sensation, and is accepted as proof that Poland will, not repeat Czechoslovakia's weakness over Sudetenland.

Poland has also closed down the offices of the Young German party the German Workers' Guild, two of the most prominent minority organisations.

The British Associated Press suggests that martial law will be enforced in the Polish border districts if subversion continues. Poland Opens National Register. In the meantime Poland lias begun ft national register of all between the apes of 10 and 60, including women, in order to allot them wartime jobs, especially for the skilled. Eighty registration centres in Warsaw were crowded all day.

German newspapers are swamped with (puesome stories of the "Polish terror." It is alleged that 1000 Germans in Silesia have been arrested and herded in concentration camps, where they arc beaten and given uneatable foods. Reasons for the persecution are not given. « is al£o alleged that anti-German elements are arming, and therefore •ppalling terror can be expected. Reuter's Berlin correspondent says the Press campaign is approaching the stage at which Germany will say she "Hist march to protect her oppressed nationals.

Official Warsaw circles say the Nazi reports of the arrest and maltreatment of the German minority are exaggerated, though they admit maltreatment in cases where minority Germans briijjged about Germany or threatened Poland.