DANZIG ARRESTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 164, 14 July 1939, Page 7

DANZIG ARRESTS.

SOCIAL DEMOCRATS. Strong Opposition To Nazi Regime Revealed. POSITIVE MOVE SOON? United Press Association.—Copyright. (Received 1.30 p.m.) LONDON'. July 13. r l lie "Daily Telegraph" Warsaw correspondent says that seven men were arrested in Danzig in lightning raids and house searches by Free City police, in which arms and explosives are reported to have been discovered. \T.. .4 ..C *1. .. i .. ..

jiosi 01 uie men are members ot the | Soeial Democratic party, which the j Nazis recently dissolved and made' illegal. Ihe arrests caused a sensation in Warsaw, as revealing the existence of extensive underground opposition to the Nazi regime among German Danzigers. ' ; It is unofticially reported that Danzig has been told to continue preparations and that a positive development may shortly lie expected. The '"Daily Telegraph" says that a, military and economic agreement between Britain and Poland is imminent, 1 under which Britain and France respectively would provide £."> .000.000 and £:{..")(I(I.0(I0 for a fund to strengthen : Polish finances and enable her to maintain her Army in a state of mobilisation. 1 Hritiun. in addition, will provide a I credit ot £K. 000.000 to purchase war and ,aw materials. A Danzig message says the Senate 1 apologised for the Danzig secret police arresting the Brazilian Charge d'Affaires en Poland and the Consul in Gydnia for taking photographs while sightseeing in the city. They were bundled into the police van and detained for two hours. Their cameras were confiscated.