DANZIG CRISIS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 June 1939, Page 6

DANZIG CRISIS

SITUATION CHANGING FOR WORSE UNEASY RUMOURS PERSIST FORMATION OF FREE CORPS. ARMS & AMMUNITION SMUGGLED IN. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, Noon.) LONDON, June 29. Benters’ Berlin correspondent says news filtering in from unofficial sources suggests that something is afoot in Danzig and that the situation has changed for the worse. It is impossible to verify reports regarding the distribution of German troops. The Danzig representative of the Associated Press of Great Britain says the Free City tonight is guarded by “a legitimately strengthened police force.” Otherwise there is no evidence against the war drum being sounded in Europe. Despite Nazi denials, rumours that a Free Corps is being formed, and that arms and ammunition are being smuggled in, persist. The Germans and Poles are blaming each other for creating a war psychosis. HEAVY GUNS MOUNTED BROUGHT IN FROM EAST PRUSSIA. MEN & MATERIALS SMUGGLED IN. (■Received This Day, 1.10 p.m.) WARSAW, June 29. It .is semi-officially reported from Danzig that sixteen heavy guns of large quantities, with ammunition, were shipped in tug-boats from East Prussia to Danzig. Gun emplacements are being constructed on the strategic hill of Bischofberg, around which police and storm troopers have formed a cordon. Barracks have been transformed into ammunition dumps. Several hundred storm troopers who have arrived to join the Free Corps aviation division, drove in from Koenigsberg. A majority of the men and materials being smuggled in came over the Nogat section of the Vistula Estuary. POLISH DEMONSTRATION GERMANS ORGANISING STRONG FORCES. NAZI PRESS INCITEMENTS. (Received This Day, 1.10 p.m.) LONDON, June 29. The correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain reports from Gdynia that the climax to Navy Week was transformed into a political anti-German demonstration. Polish crowds, taking up the usual Nazi cry, shouted: “We want Danzig!’’ and this cry soon became: “We will take Danzig!” An Associated Press message from Paris says Government circles are informed that Germany has called sixty thousand reservists to the Colours to strengthen the Army and replace those filtering to Danzig. The “Daily Telegraph’s” Danzig correspondent says fifty thousand Danzig residents aged from 16 to 25 have been ordered to enlist in the Free Corps by July 6. Many are already training in East Prussia. The Nazi Press calls on every citizen of Danzig to be ready. It says the hour of decision may strike on any day and that Germany has promised to assist in any eventuality.