POLAND STANDS FIRM

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 May 1939, Page 5

POLAND STANDS FIRM

COUNTER-PROPOSALS REGARDING DANZIG Fury in the German Press PROTECTORATE PROPOSAL CALLED GROTESQUE BOMBS THROWN IN FREE CITY By Telegraph—Press Association.— Copyright. LONDON, May 2. It is believed that Poland has decided not only to resist (Germany’s demands but also to make counter-proposals le°'arding Danzig'. . . A full meeting’ of the Lower House has been called for Friday, when Colonel Beck the Foreign Minister, will make a statement on Poland’s attitude toward Germany. At the same time the Polish representative in Berlin will hand oyer the Polish reply to the German memorandum, thus following the German example established at the time of Herr Hitler s speech. The Warsaw correspondent of the British United Press states that symptomatic of Poland’s stiffened attitude to Germany is a decision by Polish retail newspaper sellers not to circulate German newspapers on the ground that they are publishing improper articles about Poland. Reports from Warsaw that Poland has decided to copy German diplomatic methods by demanding a Polish protectorate over Danzig have infuriated the German Press, which declares that this is grotesque because Danzig is a German city. It is reported from Danzig that bombs were thrown yesterday at Polish Customs officers’ lodgings in the Free City. Little damage was done. One bomb which did not explode, was of a German military type. Cabinet has approved a Bill giving President Moscicki exceptional powers for national defence until Parliament' meets on September 1. ■