SENATE STATEMENT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 145, 22 May 1939, Page 7

SENATE STATEMENT.

KILLING FIXED. OCCUPANT OF CAR. Received Mav 22, 12.25 p.in. DANZIG. May 21. A Senate statement says that the victim of the Kalthof incident ivas “a Danzig citizen, Gruebner, who was shot by a Polish citizen, Murawski, without reason.” The statement proceeds: “The conduct of Polish Customs inspectors in Kalthof towards the German led the Danzig women to stir a Red crowd to demonstrate before the Polish Customshouse. No Polish property or person was injured. The police intervened, with the result that the affair was liquidated, of which the Polish diplomatic representative in Danzig was advised. Nevertheless, the counsellor to the Polish Legation at Danzig (M. Perowsky), with several Polish Customs officials, went to Kalthof despite the fact that an investigation of political incidents is the concern of Danzig official". It was established that the fatal shot at Gruebner came from an occupant of M. Perowsky’s car. Gruebner had been in Marienberg all day and w r as not concerned with the Kalthof demonstration. Ho left Marienberg by taid after midnight and was blinded at Kalthof by the lights of M. Perowsky’s car and, quitting the taxi in order to ascertain the cause of the trouble, was killed by two shots. The occupants of the Polish car left Kalthof in a locomotive in the direction of Dirsehau, Poland. Tho police confiscated the Polish car, in which was found a loaded Mauser pistol, also an empty revolver holster. They established that the fatal shot was fired from a Polish army pistol. Gruebner and the driver of his taxi were both uarmed.”