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NAZIS AND POLES SERIOUS INCIDENTS OIL TANKS' SEIZED GRAIN CONFISCATE!) (Received August 27, 7.30 p.m.) WARSAW, Aug. 2(5 The Nazi police in Danzig have confiscated oil tanks belonging to the Polish Government company at Polmin, and also 5000 tons of rye and 1000 tons of barley stored by a Polish agricultural company. Frontier incidents are increasing in number and seriousness. Germans early this morning fired on a Polish railway station across the Slovak frontier. Germans on the PolishEast Prussian frontier are reported to have fired on frontier guards, one of whom was killed. It is stated that Nazi Storm Troopers have been placod at four stations fa the Polish railway system in Danzig. The Berlin radio announces that Poliiih anti-aircraft guns fired on a German aeroplane flying over Danzig. One of the occupants was the State Secretary, Dr. Stuckart. It is not stated whether the machine was struck. The announcement was followed by the declaration that "this intolerable provocation is against all international law.", The Germans report that Poles fatally shot seven Germans and one Czech at Bielitz. "It is now certain that the Poles are planning an attack on German territory," declares the official German news agency in a statement. "Polish troop concentrations and military preparations are in no way defensive, and the Poles have brought up much cavalry within striking distance of the border. Three Polish assault divisions and an armoured brigade aro concentrated on the Prussian frontier and preparations aro noticeable' in Upper Silesia." The Berlin newspaper Angriff claims that 24 of the minority German Ukrainian reservists were machinegunned and killed at tho provisional military camp at Lodz, for refusing to bo shifted to Northern Poland. AIR RACE CANCELLED (Received August 27, 8.10 p.m.) LONDON, Aug. 26 The King's Cup air race, which was to have been held on September 2, has been cancelled.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23436, 28 August 1939, Page 9
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