KILLING OF GERMAN

POLISH CHAUFFEUR

FRONTIER INCIDENT

(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.)

(Received May 22, 1.15 p.m.) DANZIG, May 21.

A German crowd, including many uniformed men, fired on and destroyed a Polish Customs house on the East Prussian frontier today. The occupants fled from the district when the police stated that their safety could not be.guaranteed.

Later a crowd attacked a member of the staff of the Polish ConsulGeneral, who arrived by car to inspect the damage. The police declined to offer protection, whereupon the chauffeur fired on arid drove away the attackers, wounding one, who died later.

A stern protest has been made.to the Polish Consul.

It is revealed that the Pplish ViceCommissioner, M. Perowsky, went out to a frontier post at Kalthof to inspect the damage, leaving his car near the station. Five Germans attacked 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 that j the occupants of the car,* in which they recognised a counsellor at the Polish Legation, the president of the Polish Railway, and the chief inspector of the Polish Customs, fired on a German by-stander, and then escaped in a railway engine. The frontier post is a total wreck. It is impossible to check those who are entering Poland from East Prussia. . SENATE COMMUNIQUE. A Senate communique states that the victim of the Kalthof incident was "a Danzig citizen, Herr Gruebner, who was shot by a Polish citizen, M. Murawski, without reason." The communique proceeds: "The conduct of the Polish Customs inspectors' in Kalthof towards German and Danzig women stirred the crowd to demonstrate before the Polish Customs house. No Polish property or person was injured. The police intervened and the result of the affair was liquidated. The Polish diplomatic representative in Danzig was advised of this, but nevertheless the counsellor at the Polish Legation at 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 Herr Gruebner came from an occupant of M. Perowsky's car. , Herr Gruebner had been at Marienberg. all day, and was not concerned with the Kalthof demonstration. He , left Marienberg by taxi after. midnight, was blinded at Kalthof by the lights of M. Perowsky's car, and, on quitting his* 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, in Poland. Police confiscated the Polish car, in which they found a loaded Mauser pistol and also an empty revolver holster. They established that,the fatal shot was fired from a Polish army pistol. Herr Gruebner and the driver of his taxi were both unarmed."