MENACE TO POLAND

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 June 1939, Page 7

MENACE TO POLAND

GERMANY MASSING TROOPS ON FRONTIER FOUR THOUSAND CZECHS AT CRACOW. DECLARE THEMSELVES READY TO FIGHT. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright LONDON. June 13. It has been necessary Io establish a refugee camp at Cracow to accommodate 4000 Czechoslovakian officers and troops who crossed the frontier a 1 the weekend. Refugees report that German troops are moving along the Polish and Slovakian borders, states' a message from Warsaw. It is reliably stated in Warsaw that nearly a quarter of a million German troops are concentrated on the Bohe-mian-Slovakian borders adjoining Poland. The Germans are rushing the fortifications to completion along the Slovak-Polish frontier, says an Independent Cable Service message. Hundreds of the Czech and Slovak refugees who crossed into Poland declare they are ready to fight against Germany.

CREDITS IN BRITAIN POLISH PURCHASES OF WAR MATERIAL. DELEGATION TO NEGOTIATE. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, June 13. A Polish financial delegation will visit London shortly to negotiate a sterling export credit agreement, it has been announced from Warsaw. In connection with the impending visit of the deputation, no official statement on the proposed credits has been published, but it is understood they are for finished war material, especially bombing aeroplanes, and heavy ordnance machinery for the development of production of certain types of aircraft in which Poland is deficient, and perhaps less urgently for providing additional working capital for the export of materials.