INCREASED TENSION

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20887, 19 August 1939, Page 7

INCREASED TENSION

HORRORS AND PERSECUTION GERMANY AND POLAND INCIDENTS ON THE FRONTIER (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyrlgbt) (Received August 19, 11.5 a.m.) LONDON, August 18 While the German press is intensifying its assaults against England and 'France and accusing Poland of closing the frontiers in order to perpetrate horrors secretly, the Polish newspapers are piling up stories of German persecution. They assert that Poles in the Beuthen district of German Silesia, have been ordered to move inland from the frontier and children have been taken forcibly from their parents and placed in camps. It is reported that the Central 'Bureau Polish organisations in Berlin have been closed down, also that the cash deposits in the Slavic Bank at Berlin have been sealed. On the other hand the Germans report the arrest of a number of German bank officials in the Corridor. Minor frontier incidents continue, the Poles and the Germans dwelling on the experiences of the refugees. QUEBTION OF PEACE LIES IN POLISH HANDS NEGOTIATIONS IN ITALY (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received Aug. 19, 3 p.m.) ROME, Aug. 18 The newspapers continue to harp on the theme that peace lies in Poland’s hands. Count- Czaky and Count Ciano conferred for over an hour. No word of the discussion has leaked out, as it is still insisted that the visit is private. ALLEGED PROVOCATION MASS DEMONSTRATION PLANNED (United Press Assn.—Elec. Te!. Copyright) BERLIN, August 18 Residents of Berlin are excited by a report from Warsaw that a mass demonstration for the harvest festival has been planned by the Poles for next Monday, at Usdau, a village 300 yards from the German frontier. The Lokalanzeiger says that one cannot condemn sharply enough such irresponsibility under which great masses of people are lured into frankly admitted provocation on the German frontier.