DANZIG SITUATION
CHANGE
POLICE OFFICER TESTIFIES
Sub-Inspector. Joseph Herbert. Edwards, of Hunghom Police Sta tion, who is charged with demand-
THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 80, 1989
FOR THE WORSE
NAZIS SEND
TROOPS AND MUNITIONS TO
THE FREE CITY
Berlin, To-day.
ing $110 with menaces, or with in- Official Nazi quarters strongly deny that German
tent to steal the same from Lau. Yee-yuk, testified on his own be half in the witness-box at the Kow-
loon
Magistracy this morning
troops or officials have been introduced into Danzig, or that a Frei Korps is being formed.
when the case was resumed before The Nazis admit, however, that Danzig is streng-
Mr. E. Himsworth.
Mr. John Whyatt, Crown Coun-
sel, assisted by Sub-Inspector. C.
Mottram, conducted the prosecu-
tion.
thening its "peace force" within its legal rights, employing only Danzig citizens.
MORE
FIRES IN
LONDON
London, To-day.
While Captain Osbert Peake, Under-Secretary for the Home Office, announced yesterday that a thorough police investigation would be made into the causes of the six recent fires in London, the City Fire Brigade was called to Hackney where a fire had broken out in a lumber yard, -causing Trans- considerable damage. Ocean.
It is alleged that Edwards in- Reason for this move is ascribed to the "impudent CHARGE DISMISSED
directly through the interpreter Wu Shui-ki, demanded the money from Lau.
had a few
and irresponsible behaviour" of Polish officials and others in the Corridor.
gome-
progress
This morning Edwards said, in
News from Danzig through of- witness-box, that he drinks on April 22 and was not ficial sources, suggests that very well next morning when he thing is certainly in arrived at the charge room at 7.30 there, a.m., half an hour late. He in- structed the interpreter to search Laú, and attended to his. morning report.
re-
STORM TROOPERS ARRIVE
Nazi Storm Several hundred Troopers are reported to have ar- rived in Danzig.
Appearing again this morning at the Central Magistracy before Mr. R. Edwards, Victor Lakin, 36- year-old ship's engineer, of the 8.5. "Featherstone," had a charge of vagrancy dismissed upon his tell- ing the Court that he was catching boat to Singapore to-morrow Nazis who arrived from East morning.
He had failed to appear aboard Prussia to form the Frei Korps are re- being housed in Danzig's pre-War his ship which sailed on June 27. Reu-Det. Sergt. Loughlin again appear- impos-underground fortifications.
ed for the police.
The situation, if anything, has changed for the worse.
Rumours of German troop He telephoned Chief Detective distributions are as usual Inspector A. E. Carey with the in-sible to verify-Reuter.. tention of handing the, case over
to him. But, as Inspector. Carey did not ask him to hand over the case, he decided to deal with it himself.
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MUNITIONS IN DANZIG
Warsaw, To-day. Ammunition and men are con- The interpreter informed him tinuing to reach Danzig from East that one $10-note and nine 10 cent Prussia, according to semi-official pieces were found on Lau's person. reports received from Danzig last
Lau, while being questioned, night. wanted the police to call his friend, Wong Wing, who was also employ-
Sixteen guns were disembarked
ed as No. 1 Carpenter at the Kow-on Wednesday night in a bay east loon Docks, to the station;
Edwards gave instructions to the interpreter to take Lau to the de- 'tectives' room until his friend Wong arrived.
on board of Danzig, and taken trawless to Bischofsberg, where the are feverishly Danzig authorities
gun emplace- erecting concrete ments,
ter.
IMPORTANT STATEMENT ON SILVER POLICY
BY MR. MORGENTHAU
Washington, To-day.
Access has been prohibited to Mr. Henry Morganthau, Secretary for the Trea-
Lau and the interpreter went to the detectives' room and he, him- the hill, which is surrounded by a The Storm self, went to his quarters.
cordon of police. Later, he joined them in the de-Troopers' barracks on the hill has tectives' room and gave instruc- been transformed into an ammuni- tions to the interpreter to caution tion dump.
Lau.
He was told by a detective that Lau was a No. 1 Carpenter at Kow- loon docks. so he released Lau be-- fore his friend Wong arrived.
SLOVAK DELEGATES IN BERLIN
Questioned by Mr. Hugh-Jones, Edwards said that he did not de- mand anything from Lau and did
Berlin; To-day. not even hear the interpreter had
A Slovak, delegation arrived in made any demands. - Edwards con- tinued that he had confidence in Berlin yesterday for negotiations the interpreter. He pointed out with the German Government.
The conversations will cover all that he had written in the "refuse- charge-book," which clearly show-questions arising between Ger- ́ed that he had decided that Lau many and Slovakia since the es- was not to be charged.
sury, said at a press conference that the Trea- sury would continue to adjust its foreign sil- ver price to the London market, with a view to preventing dumping by foreign sellers anti- cipating a complete cessation of American buying abroad.
Whether it would be continued beyond midnight
owever, to-morrow, however, would depend on the ac- tion of Congress on the Monetary Bill.
He also said that if the proposed tain powers to act in foreign ex- change markets if the emergency tablishment of the Protectorate of higher domestic price was
The nego-it might be possible fan powers lapse, but with divided au~. Edwards was then cross-examin-Bohemia and Moràvia.
tiations are expected to last three sellers to be subject to a 60 per thority between the Treasury and by Mr. Whyatt. ⠀⠀
the New York Federal Bank he was weeks. Trans-Ocean,
not certain just how successful such an intervention might
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He was of the opinion that possible lapsing of the Stab Fund and Devalutation Aut at this time presents à serious situ tion, particularly in view ternational developments, and ́also endanre:
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