WAR PREPARATIONS
TROOPS AND ARMAMENTS GUN EMPLACEMENTS BUILT (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received June 30, 3.13 p.m.) WARSAW, June ,29 It is semi-ofllcially reported from Danzig th.rt sixteen heavy guns and large quantities of ammunition have been shipped in tugboats from East Prussia to Danzig, and gun emplacements are being constructed on the strategic hill of Bischofberg, around which police and storm troopers have formed a cordon. The barracks have been transformed into ammunition dumps. Several hundred storm troopers have arrived to join the Free Corps aviation division. The majority of the men and materials are being'smuggled in over the Nogat section of the Vistula Estuary.
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20844, 30 June 1939, Page 8
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107WAR PREPARATIONS Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20844, 30 June 1939, Page 8
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