Germany Increasing Forces
(Received 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, July 20. Military preparations in Danzig are being continued, and Germany is expected to have 2,000,000 men under arms by the end of August. Heavy troop movements continue night and day, this correspondent states. German sappers arb speeding-up anti-tank defences, facing the Polish frontier near the port of Gdynia, and military lorries without registration plates brought 20 anti-tank guns and ammunition to Danzig. Several hundred soldiers took part in military exercises at Langfuhr, which is a suburb of Danzig, wearing field-grey uniforms with the sign S.S. (Schutzstaffel, Hitler's “private army”), and also the Swastika on their steel helmets. They carried new rifles. Polish Protests. “ The Warsaw correspondent of “The Times” says the Polish authorities have sent-two protests to the Danzig Senate, complaining of interfei'ence with Customs officials and unjust dismissals from shipyards.
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Northern Advocate, 22 July 1939, Page 7
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