NAZIS IN DANZIG

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 12904, 3 July 1936, Page 6

NAZIS IN DANZIG

. ■ —■■ - HIGH COMMISSIONER SUMMONED TO GENEVA. SENSATIONAL HINTS IN PRESS. GERMAN COUP REE!EVER lAIAIINEN'i (U.P.A. by Elec. Tel. Copyright). (.Received July 2, 7.10 p.m.). LONDON, July I. A Geneva message states tliai the League Council has decided to discuss tho Danzig position. Owing to the gravity of tho situation, Mr. Anthony Eden has asked Air. Sean Lester, the High Commissioner at Danzig, to oonio to Geneva. the Daily .Mail's Geneva correspondent says that Air. Lester has been summoned to' Geneva, ostensibly (o explain an incident in which the captain of the German cruise/ Lipzig, visiting Danzig, is reported to have slighted Ah'. Lester h.v failing to pay a courtesy call. This co'neicled with newspaper attacks on Air. Lost r both in Danzig and, in Rcrlin. Tho newspapers, however, suggest there is a more sensational reason for the summons, nam?lv. fears of an imminent Nazi coup in Danzig. Large eonccntrutifMs of German forces are reported to be occurring on the eastern frontier. The Manchester Guardian's Warsaw correspondent says that Mr. Cestc’-'s sudden summons to Geneva caused consternation in Nazi circles in Danzig, which did not expect so quick a reaction from the League to recent events in lire city, which nro causing alarm in Roland. The Kuryer Warzawski says that a sudden blow in Danzig would endanger Roland's verv existence.