NAZIS & POLAND

Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 May 1939, Page 5

NAZIS & POLAND

MORE NOTES FROM DANZIG SENATE DISPUTE OVER SHOOTING AFFRAY. HITLER SENDS WREATH. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. DANZIG, May 25. The Danzig Senate sent two Notes to Poland yesterday, the first emphatically rejecting the Polish account of the frontier incident at Kalthof when a German, Herr Gruebner, was. killed in a shooting affray. The second Note demands the recall from Danzig of two Polish officials, one of them being the Customs inspector who investigated the Kalth]of incident. The Nazi district leader in Danzig. Herr Forster, has returned to the Free City from Berlin with a wreath from Herr Hitler for Herr Gruebner’s funeral. \

'MR CHAMBERLAIN’S HOPE AVOIDANCE OF GRAVE COMPLICATIONS (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, May 24. The hope that recent incidents in Danzig would not be permitted to lead to graver complications was expressed by Mr Chamberlain in the House of Commons at question time today, when he gave the House such information x as was in the possession of Lard Halifax regarding the events of Kalthof. Mr Chamberlain said that, according to reports received by the Foreign Office, demonstrations were made on May 21 against the Polish customshouse at Kalthof. There was conflict of evidence as to the nature and the results of these demonstrations. The Polish Commissioner-General in Danzig sent representatives to investigate the affair and —in circumstances of which the accounts also differed very widely—a Danzig citizen was killed. i. It was after recording that a formal protest had been made on both sides that Mr Chamberlain expressed the above hope. STAFF TALKS BRITISH MILITARY MISSION IN POLAND. LONDON, May 25. The Warsaw correspondent of “The Times” says that a British military mission has arrived there to confer with the Polish General Staff in connection with military problems arising our of the agreement' between Britain and Poland.