POLISH FRONTIER TENSION

Taranaki Daily News, 5 December 1930, Page 9

POLISH FRONTIER TENSION

MOBILISATION BY GERMANS NAZI STORM TROOPS CAUGHT POLICE SEIZE AMMUNITION RAIDS THOUGHT IMMINENT . : ■" '■ ■’ ‘ z , ' ■ . By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. Rec. 7 p.m. ■ London, Dec.,4. An ominous incident in view .of. the Na; tionalist.-Nazi agtation for a revision of the' German-Polish frontier is reported by the Berlin correspondent of the Times. News, from Breslau states the police rounded Up -350 armed uniformed Nazis at the manor house of Von Oelffen,/a prominent supporter, of Kapp Putsch. Arms and ammunition Were seized and-Von Oelffen Was arrested. : The mobilisation of Nazi storm troops so near the border is interpreted pa. meaning that raids are intended. TENSION ALREADY APPARENT. REICHSTAG COMMITTEE ROUSED; The existence of tension between Germany and Poland was revealed on Tues day by resolutions passed’ by -the I 1 oreign Affairs Committee of the Reichstag. Notwithstanding the opposition of Dr Curtius, Foreign Minister, the committee demanded the repudiation of the negotiations for a commercial treaty between Germany and Poland and the revocation of the • liquida tions agreement. with Roland. The committee protested against acts of terrorism against German minorities and insisted upon the punishment of the guilty Poles and the compensation of their victims. The committee rejected a Nationalist motion that an army of 100,000 unemployed'men should be .raised to, protect Germany from Poland and'that Germany should withdraw from the of Nan tions. The committee' agreed, however, to demand the recall of the German representatives at the conference of the Preparatory Commission on Disarmament on the. grounds that other Powers were not fulfilling their obligations. K"’ • .