MANY KILLED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 204, 30 August 1939, Page 12

MANY KILLED.

BOMB EXPLOSION. Reported Nazi Admission Of Outrage In Poland. CAMPAIGN OF TERROR. (Received 3 p.m.) LONDON, August 29. Eighteen people were "killed- by the explosion of a time bomb in the luggage office at the railway station at Tarnow, says a message from Warsaw. Over 39 were injured. Two Germans were arrested and a third was detained at Katowice. It is alleged that they confessed to planting bombs to blow up public buildings at Biala and Dielsko. The morning papers vigorously attacked the campaign of "German lies" concerning the treatment of the German minority. The Independent Cable Service says Polish border guards at Lansberg shot and killed five Germans who were swimmipg down the Warthe River attempting to escape to Germany. In Danzig shop windows new German maps have appeared. They do not show the Polish Corridor. The Danzig Senate has forbidden the passage of goods trains from Danzig to Poland, says a message from Warsaw. It is officially stated in Berlin that 100 Polish soldiers crossed the Polish frontier at Cadaca, near the Jablunka Pass, into Slovakia, and were taken prisoner. The Polish officer in command, who tried to escape, was shot. It is pointed out that the frontier at Cadaca is not clearly marked. The men did not know they were on foreign soil. The position in Warsaw is tense but calm. The digging of air raid shelters continued all night. The frontiers are closely watched. NAZI CALUMNIES. Government Knowingly Issuing False Reports. "PURE INVENTIONS." (Received 3 p.m.) WARSAW, August 29. An official communique says that tlie Government has been obliged to protest solemnly against the German Government using untrue information in its diplomatic gamble regarding allejred terrorisation of the German minority, which has been deliberately used to mislead international opinion and foreign Governments. While German calumnies were restricted to newspaper pro[*aganda, the Poles were content to issue denials and have given exact information. Anyone having good faith enough could ask for such information, but for some time past allegations which were pure inventions had been included in statements from the highest German circles, which had probably been tendentiously informed.

The communique adds: Mendacious statements that 24 Germans were murdered at Lodz, eight at Bielsko, and other atrocities, were pure invention. The Independent Cable Service states that it is reported from Danzig that many local Germans have been ordered to apply at military registration offices in certain Polish towns on various dates between September 10 and 15. Danzig police told inquirers that "in fact those towns are still Polish, but on the date fixed in the order they will belong to Germanv."