REJECTED BY POLAND
WITHDRAWAL OF OFFICIALS
KALTHOF INCIDENT
(By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright*
(Received May 31, 9.50 a.m.) LONDON, May 30. The Danzig correspondent of "The Times" states that Poland has rejected Danzig's demand for the withdrawal of the Polish officials involved in the Gruebner incident at Kalthof on May 21.
One version of the Kalthof incident was that a German crowd, in* eluding many xmiformed men, fired on and destroyed a Polish Customs house on the East Prussian frontier. The occupants fled from the district when the police stated that their safety could not be guaranteed. Later a crowd attacked a" member of the staff of the Polish Consul-General, who arrived by car to inspect the damage. The police declined to offer protection, whereupon the chauffeur fired on and drove away the-attackers* wounding one, who died 3ater.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 126, 31 May 1939, Page 9
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