POLES PROTEST

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23436, 28 August 1939, Page 9

POLES PROTEST

RECENT INCIDENTS PATROLS IN SKIRMISH HERR FORSTER'S NEW POST CONTRARY TO STATUTE (Received August 27, 7.30 p.m.) LONDON, Aug. 2G The Polish Ambassador to Germany has protested against Germans ma,chine-gunning a Polish border post in the Rybnik district, says tho Berlin correspondent of the Independent Cable Service. It is officially stated from Warsaw that a German military patroi penetrated into Polish territory for a distance of one kilometre near the village of Penta, a few miles north of Ostrolenka. Encountering r. Polish patrol, the Germans used a sub-machine-gun. The Poles returned their fire and the Germans eventually withdrew, leaving their leader, Corporal Kastenhagen, dead on Polish territory. , Four now cases have been reported of Polish anti-aircraft: batteries firing on German war aeroplanes, which, it is stated, wore flying over Polish territory. A despatch from Warsaw says that M. Chodacki, Polish Commissioner in Danzig, has sent a Note to the Danzig Senate protesting against Herr Fors-, ter's appointment as head of the State, which was not provided for in the Free City's statute. Ho has also protested against tho arrest of Polish railway officials. JUST METHOD CONCILIATION PROPOSAL POLAND IN AGREEMENT WILL NOT START TROUBLE (Received August '27, 7.30 p.m.) WARSAW, Aug. 20 President Moscicki of Poland has sent a message to President Roosevelt emphasising that his Government has ahvays considered direct negotiations the most appropriate method of solving difficulties, and for that reason it had concluded non-aggression pacts with Germany and the Soviet. He added: "Wo consider that the method of conciliation through a third party as disinterested and impartial as Your Excellency would be, a just and equitable method of solving the controversies." President Moscicki said Poland was not proffering claims and demanding concessions in this crisis. Therefore it was natural that she would refrain from a positive act of hostility provided the other party did likewise. He hoped that President Roosevelt's appeal would assist in a sorely needed return to the blessed path of progress and civilisation.