ANTI-TANK GUNS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23866, 21 July 1939, Page 9

ANTI-TANK GUNS

NAZI ACTIVITY IN DANZIG DEFENCES SPEEDED UP SOLDIERS DRILL IN SUBURB (United Press Association) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) DANZIG, July 20. (Received July 21, at 0.45 a.m.) German sappers are speeding up the anti-tank defences facing the Polish frontier near Gydnia. Military lorries without registration plates brought 20 anti-tank guns and ammunition to Danzig. Several hundred soldiers took part in military exercises in Langfuhr, which is a Danzig suburb. They wore field grey uniforms, with the sign S.S. and the swastika on them. They had steel helmets and carried new rifles. SITUATION MORE TENSE POLICE STRENGTHENED LONDON, July 19. The Berlin correspondent of The Times says the Danzig police have been reinforced from 3000 to 4000 “ owing to the necessity for protecting the city from the Polish Army.” The British United Press Berlin representative says the situation is described as slightly more tense. Military preparations in Danzig are being continued, and Germany is expected to have 2,000,000 men at the end of August. Heavy troop movements continue night and day. The Warsaw correspondent of The Times says the Polish authorities sent two protests to the Danzig Senate complaining of interference with Customs officials and unjust dismissals from shipyards.