PEARS OF COUP.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 182, 3 July 1936, Page 9

PEARS OF COUP.

SITUATION IN DANZIG. LONDON, July I. The Daily Mail’s Geneva correspondent says that Mr Sean Lester (Danzig High Commissioner) was summoned to Geneva ostensibly to explain an incident in which the captain of the German cruiser Leipzig, which was visiting Danzig, is reported to have slighted Mr Lester by failing to pay a courtesy call. This coincided with newspaper attacks on. Mr Lester both at Danzig and Berlin. The newspapers, however, suggest that there is a more sensational reason for the summons, namely fears of an imminent Nazi coup at Danzig. Large concentrations of German forces are reported to be occurring on Eastern frontiers. The Manchester Guardian’s Warsawcorrespondent says that Mr Lester’s sudden summons to Geneva caused consternation in Nazi circles at Danzig, which did not expect so quick a reaction from the League to recent events rn the city, which are causing alarm in Poland. The Kuryer Warzawski says a sudden blow at Danzig would endanger Poland’s very existence.