INCIDENTS CONTINUE

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 43, 19 August 1939, Page 9

INCIDENTS CONTINUE

POLISH FRONTIER

PRESS CAMPAIGN INTENSIFIED

GERMAN CHARGES

BRITAIN AND FRANCE

(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) (Received August 19, 11 a.m.) LONDON, August 18. While the German Press is intensifying its assaults against Britain and France, and accusing Poland of closing her frontiers in order to perpetrate horrors secretly, Polish newspapers are piling up stories of German persecution. It is asserted that Poles in the Beuthen district of German Silesia have been ordered to move inland from the frontier and that children have been forcibly taken from their parents and placed in camps. It k reported by the Central Bureau that Polish organisations in Berlin have been closed down and also that the cash deposits in the Slavic Bank at Berlin have been sealed.

The Germans report the arrest of a number of German bank officials in the Polish corridor.

Minor frontier incidents continue, and both the Poles and the Germans dwell on the experiences of their refugees.

Danzig reports that M. Chodacki, the Polish Commissioner in Danzig, ■ and Herr Greiser, President of the Senate, had a further conference, but no communique was issued.

The Nazi leader in Danzig, Herr Poerster, handed over the new army colours, a swastika surmounted by a death's head. Thousands of people watched a parade of 1500 men with machine-guns and anti-tank guns. Herr Foerster said that Danzig was able to protect herself and no longer needed note-writing by the League of Nations.

The official news agency in Berlin says that 4461 German refugees from Poland are accommodated in camps across the frontier. The total number of refugees since the beginning of August is 76,535, most of whom have been given work. The Italian paper "Giornale d'ltalia" says that Poland has nothing to lose by dealing with Germany, and that if, instead of negotiating, she prefers war, she should remember that Italy will do her duty and that the Axis is unbreakable, like steel.