"WILL BE GERMAN"

POLISH TOWNS

DANZIG POLICE STATEMENT

MORE INCIDENTS REPORTED

(Received August 30, 11 a.m.) WARSAW, August 29. It is reported from Danzig that many local Germans have been ordered to apply for military registration at offices in certain Polish towns on various dates between September 10 and 15. Danzig police told inquirers: "In fact, those towns are still Polish, but on the date fixed in the order they will belong to Germany." The Danzig Senate has forbidden the passage of a goods train from Danzig to Poland. In shop windows in Danzig this morning new German maps have appeared in which the Polish Corridor is not shown. Field headquarters are established 1 at Gootswalde, nine miles from Danzig. ! Travellers report that the air field in the East Prussian town of Elbing is . crowded with aeroplanes and has been closed to the public. The Polish morning papers vigorously attacked the "campaign of German lies" concerning the treatment of the German minority. It is officially stated in Berlin that 100 Polish soldiers crossed the Polish, frontier at Cardaca, near the Jablunka • Pass, into Slovakia and were taken prisoner. The Polish officer in command, who tried to escape, was shot. It is claimed in Warsaw that the frontier at Cardaca is not clearly marked and tlie men did not know .they were on foreign soil. Two Germans are reported io have been arrested after a bomb explosion in the Polish railway station at Tarnow, near Cracow, yesterday. The explosion occurred in the luggage office. It is alleged that they confessed to planting: bombs in order to blow up public buildings in Biala and Dielsko. It is revealed that 18 were killed and 13 were injured as a result of the explosion. It is reported in Warsaw that Polish border guards at Lansberg shot and killed five minority Germans who were swimming down the Warthe River attempting to escape to Germany. Poland has mobilised additional classes of reservists as a counter-move to the reported German occupation of Slovakia on August 28.