REPORT FROM WARSAW

LANDED ESTATE OCCUPIED

ACTION BY GERMAN PATROL

(Independent Cable Service.)

(Received August 25, noon.)

WARSAW, August 24. A German patrol crossed the border of Poland and East Prussia near Ilawa and occupied landed estate at Bagno, one kilometre within Polish territory. ■ ■ ,

Telephone communication between Gdynia and Danzig has been cut off. British ships are reported to have left Danzig, taking members of the British colony. Three additional classes of Polish reserves have been called Uf

(By Telegraphs-Press Association—Copyright.)

Received August 25. noon.)

BERLIN, August 24. The official German news agency states that the Polish forces are at Avar strength and have encircled Danzig, and that the danger of an imminent coup d'etat is great.

It is stated that Mr. Chamberlain's speech has increased the ten» sion in Berlin and caused hope to fade that European problems can be solved without bloodshed.

Warsaw reports that, though the frontier defences have been manned, there is no general mobilisation.

The British Consulate in Berlin, under instructions from Londoj has advised Britons to leave Germany.

LONDON, August 24. The Berlin correspondent of the "Daily Express" says Polish diplomats allege that German police detained a Polishdiplomaticbag yesterday and confiscated a parcel. They claim that a Polish courier en route to Poland was arrested at Rawicz, on the frontier, and that neither the courier nor the bag has been released. It is officially announced in Danzig that the German navy's training ship Schleswig-Holstein will anchor off Danzig at 8 a.m/ta

morrow.

The German training ship Schleswig-Holstein is listed in "Brassey's Naval Annual" as a 12,300-ton ship, completed in 1908 and reconstructed in 1925-30, with 4in to 9-Hn armour in the belt, and mounting four llin and ten 5.6 in guns and1 four 3.5 in anti-air-craft guns.