AXIS MILITARY MOVEMENTS

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 234, 1 July 1939, Page 11

AXIS MILITARY MOVEMENTS

French Alarm At New Reports

DANZIG ANXIETY IS INTENSIFIED

Ominous Indications In The Free City

By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright. (Received June 30, 11.50 p.tn.) LONDON, June 30.

France is looking to her defences as a result of reports of the calling up of German reservists and also of Italian troop trains moving through the Brenner Pass says the Paris representative of the Associated Press of Great Britain. Marshal Gamelin is inspecting the fortifications on the Italian frontier and Air Marshal Vuillemin is inspecting the Corsican air bases. “Le journal” declares: “Our predicament is enough to make the one and a half million French wardead rise from their graves.” Reuter’s correspondent in Berlin states that news filtering in from unofficial sources suggests that something is afoot in Danzig. The situation has changed for the worse, and it is impossible to verify reports regarding the distribution of German troops. The Danzig correspondent of the Associated Press of America says: “The Free City tonight is guarded by a ‘legimately strengthened police force.” otherwise there is no evidence against the war drum in Europe. Despite Nazi denials, rumours that a free corps is being formed and that arms and ammunition are being smuggled in persist. Germans and Poles are blaming each other for creating.a war psychosis.” Polish Demonstration. The correspondent of the Associated Press of America in Gdynia says that the climax to navy week was transformed into a political anti-German demonstration. Polish crowds, taking up the usual Nazi cry, shouted “We want Dahzig,” and this soon became “We will take Danzig.” The Paris correspondent of the Associated Press of America says that Government circles have been informed that Germany has called 60,000 reservists to the colours to strengthen the army, replacing those who are filtering into Danzig. The Danzig correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph” says that 50,000 Danzigers between the ages of 16 and 25 have been ordered to enlist in the free corps by July 6. Many are already being trained in East Prussia. The Nazi Press calls on every Danziger to be ready, as the hour of decision may strike any day. It says that Germany has promised to assist in any eventuality. War Materials Enter. A message from Warsaw says it is reported from semi-official sources in Danzig that 16 heavy guns and large quantities of ammunition have been shipped in tugboats from East Prussia to Danzig. A gun emplacement is being constructed on a strategic hill afr Bischofsberg, around which police and storm troopers have formed a cordon. The barracks have been transformed into ammunition dumps, and several hundred storm troopers have arrived to join the free corps. An aviation division drove in from Kbenigsberg. The majority of the men and materials are being smuggled in over the Nogat section of the Vistula estuary.