MANY INCIDENTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 50, 28 August 1939, Page 9

MANY INCIDENTS

POLISH BORDER

OIL TANKS SEIZED

PROTESTS TO SENATE

(By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright.)

(Received August 28, 11 a.m.)

LONDON, August 26,

The Polish Commissioner, M. Chodacki, has sent a Note to the Senate protesting against the appointment of the Nazi leader, Herr Foerster, as "head of the Danzig State?' which is not provided for in the Free City's Statute. He has also protested against arrests of Polish railway officials. The Nazi police in Danzig have confiscated oil tanks belonging to a Polish Government company in Polmin and also 5000 tons of rye and 1000 tons of barley stored by a Polish agricultural company.

Frontier incidents are increasing in number and seriousness. Germans early this morning fired on a Polish railway station across the Slovak frontier in the vicinity of! Baskidy and Czarne. Germans on j the Polish-East Prussian frontier j are reported to have fired on frontier guards, one of whom was killed. It is stated that Nazi Storm Troopers have been placed at four stations in the Polish railway system in Danzig. It is officially stated from Warsaw that German .police surrounded the Polish Consulate at Marienwerder, in East Prussia, and prohibited occupants from leaving or entering the building. They also disconnected the telephones. The Gestapo raided the Marienwerder Secondary School, the only Polish education establishment in East Prussia, and arrested teachers and pupils. Germans, armed with rifles, attacked a Polish factory at Lignoza. At Szyglowski they penetrated Poland a hundred yards, throwing bombs. Soldiers and militia repulsed the attack. I The Danzig representative of the Associated Press of Great Britain says that intensive military activity prevailed throughout the night. Barricades have been thrown up on the western frontier. Patrols of soldiers tramped through the streets to the frontier. A message from Danzig states that the Police Commissioner has proclaimed an air ban over the Free City. The Poles emphasise that while awaiting Herr Hitler's proposals they will not acquiesce in any change in the status of Danzig. The Warsaw correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain estimates that nearly 300,000 persons, mostly women and children, have taken refuge' in the country. There are no plans for a mass evacuation. The Germans have also isolated the' Polish Consulates at Mahrischostrau and Breslau.