FRONTIER ATTACK

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 May 1939, Page 5

FRONTIER ATTACK

POLISH CUSTOMS HOUSE DESTROYED Fired On By German Crowd CHAUFFEUR DEFENDS HIS CAR CHARGES BY DANZIG OFFICIALS By Telegraph. —Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Dak, 9.15 a.in.) DANZIG, May 21. A German crowd, including many uniformed men, fired on and destroyed a Polish Customs house on the East Prussian, frontier. The occupants fled from the district when the police stated that their safety could not be guaranteed. Later a crowd attacked a member of the staff of the Polish Consul-General when he arrived by car to inspect the damage. The police again declined protection, whereupon the chauffeur fired on and drove away the attackers, wounding one who died later. The Senate has protested sternly to the Polish Consul. It was later revealed that the Polish Vice-Commissioner, M. Perowsky, went out to the frontier post of Kalthof to inspect the damage, leaving his car near the railway station. Five Germans attacked the chauffeur, who fired a revolver twice in the air and then fired on his attackers. The officials of the Free City are giving a different version. They say the occupants of the car, in which were recog-_ nised the Counsellor of the Polish Legation, the President of the Polish railways, and the Chief Inspector of Polish Customs, fired on a German bystander and escaped by a railway engine. The frontier post is a total wreck so that it is impossible to check those persons entering from East Prussia.