UPPER SILESIAN BORDER CLOSED
Members of Young German Party Arrested by Poles ALLEGED ACTIVITIES ENDANGERING STATE NAZI PRESS FEATURING PERSECUTION STORIES (By Telegraph—Press Association.—Copyright.) LONDON, August Hi. Action taken by the Polish authorities in closing overnight the Polish-German border of Upper Silesia has increaser lie tension. The border was closed when a contingent ol members of the Germany minority belonging to the Nazi ‘A muig German Partv” tried to flee across the frontier. The Polish police arrested several hundred of the party for alleged activities endangering the Stale. ' ~ The Germans declare that the Poles have disorganised rad traffic across the border ami stopped Polish miners from entering Germany for their normal day’s work, this being done as a reprisal for’the killing of a Polish policeman in a sciiltle at a border station. On the other hand, the Poles assert that the Germans have disrupted the telephones in liybnik and stopped border tiarfie. to ensure secrecy for their troop movements and lort ificat ions. German papers are featuring stories that Germans are fleeing to the Reich from Polish persecution, reminiscent of the Press tactics over Sudetenland.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 August 1939, Page 7
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185UPPER SILESIAN BORDER CLOSED Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 August 1939, Page 7
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