TWO NOTES
DANZIG _TO POLES KALTHOF INCIDENT ACCOUNT EEJECTED FEESH DEMANDS MADE By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received May 25. 6.10 p.m.) BERLIN, May 25 The Nazi Senate in Danzig sent two Notes to Poland yesterday. The first emphatically rejected the Polish account of the Kalthof incident. The second demanded the recall from Danzig of two Polish diplomats and the Customs inspector who investigated the incident. The Nazi leader in Danzig, Herr Albert Forster, has arrived there from Berlin with a wreath from Herr Hitler for Herr Gruebner's funeral. A message from Warsaw says the police banned news reels showing Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini. Tho Danzig Senate has also protested to Poland that shots were fired at a German chauffeur, who was not hit, when he was passing Polish Customs officers in driving from Elbing to Danzig. PREMIER'S HOPE NO GRAYER RESULTS REPORTS OF THE AFFAIR CONFLICTING NATURE (Received May 25, 7.5 p.m.) British Wireless LONDON, May 24 The hope that the recent incidents in Danzig would not be permitted to lead to graver complications was expressed by tho Prime Minister, Mr. Chamberlain, in the House of Commons to-day. He gave the House such information as was in the possession of the Foreign Secretary, Viscount Halifax, regarding the events at Kalthof. Mr. Chamberlain, said that, according to reports received by the Foreign Office, demonstrations wero made on May 21 against the Polish Customs House at Kalthof. There was a conflict of evidence as to the nature and results of these demonstrations. The Polish Commissioner-General at Danzig sent representatives to investigate the affair and the circumstances —of which accounts also differed very widely—in which a Danzig citizen was killed. It was after recording that a formal protest had been made on both sides that the Prime Miirtster expressed the above hope. BRITISH ARMY MISSION (Received Mny 2,", 6.15 p.m.) I.OXDOX, May 2ft A British military mission has arrived in "Warsaw to confer with the Polish General Staff in connection with military problems arising from the Anglo-Polish Agreement, says tho Warsaw correspondent of tho Times.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23356, 26 May 1939, Page 13
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