FORCES IN DANZIG
GERMAN MILITARY PLANS ROADS IN EAST PRUSSIA WIDENED. OBSTRUCTIONS ON ROAD TO POLAND. I (Received This Day. 1.15 p.m.) LONDON, July 31. A Warsaw correspondent of the “Times” says the Danzig police force new numbers 4500. organised into three regiments. Two or three batteries of field artillery, six anti-aircraft batteries and 36 anti-tank guns, mostly I from Czechoslovakia, were landed at i Danzig by night. The roads in East Prussia have been widened and repaired. The road to Poland has been obstructed, with the inclusion of tank traps. DANZIG ISSUE I DETERMINATION TO RESIST ,FORCE. BRITAIN PREPARED TO ACT - SWIFTLY. (Received This Day, 1.15 p.m.) LONDON. July 31. I “The Timos" in a leader, says: "If Danzig is not an immediate danger 'spot it is because the Government has made the British position most clear. If an attempt is made to solve the problem by force it will be resisted. Britain possesses both the force and the resolution to resist. Britain is ready for anything and knows what emergency will require action, and if it ccme-s she will net swiftly."
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 August 1939, Page 8
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