BORDER INCIDENT
POLISH GUARD SHOT
TROOP MOVEMENTS
(By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright.)
I Received July 21, noon.) DANZIG, July 20
The German News Agency reports that a Danzig Customs official shot and wounded a Polish border guard near Postelau.
It is alleged that the Pole, standing on. Polish territory, fired without warning, at which the Customs official fired in self-defence.
The shooting of jhe Pole has suddenly increased, tension. The Danzig Senate has apologised to Poland, where the incident is regarded as inexcusable provocation.
German sappers are speeding up anti-tank defences facing the Polish frontier near Gdynia. Military lorries without registration plates brought 20 anti-tank guns and ammunition to
Danzig.
Several hundred soldiers took part in military exercises in Langfuhr, which is a Danzig suburb. They wore steel helmets and field grey uniforms with the sign "5.5.," and. also a swastika on them, and carried new rifles.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 18, 21 July 1939, Page 9
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