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POLISH CUSTOMS OFFICERS ARMED
Insistence On -CRITICAL Danzig Rights
Danzig, To-day.
Polish customs inspectors on the frontier with East Prussia have been instructed to carry arms on duty.
This is interpreted as a further outward sign of Poland's determination not to yield to the Dan- zig pressure which is aimed and compelling Po- land to withdraw her customs officials from the zone.
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The Polish Note, addressed to the Danzig Senate on Saturday, insisted that Poland would main- tain her economic rights in Danzig by what ever means might be found necessary.
It made it clear, however, that their duties yesterday in uniform Poland was quite willing to enter and armed. into a detailed discussion in order It is believed, however, that to settle the matter peacefully the Polish measure will be res- Reuter,
cinded to-day and that the
CONFERENCE TO BE HELD ON WEDNESDAY
FOOD SITUATION AT TIENTSIN
Shanghai, To-day. The food situation in the British Concession at Tientsin is steadily becoming worse.
Many boarding houses and small dining houses have stop- ped serving meals.
Stall holders in the Conces- sion's market have closed down temporarily. No meat or fish was available to-day (Monday). Reuter.
TEN KILLED IN
Two Jardine Ships Burnt Out
London, To-day. TWO British steamers,
the Chiawo and the Kiangwo, both belonging to Jardine's, were com- pletely burned as a re- sult of the Japanese air- raid on Ichang at noon yesterday.
A bomb made a direct hit on one ship, which caught fire, the flames spreading to the second ship.
H.M.S. Gannet attempted to put out the fire.
There were no British casual-
cials will return to civilian cloth-GERMAN CROSSING ties; but Chinese casualties are
ing.
Danzig, To-day.
A conference between M. Chodacki, the Polish representa- tive in Danzig, and Herr Arthur In fulfilment of the warning Greiser, President of the Danzig contained in the Polish note to Senate, will probably take place
ACCIDENT
feared.
Rear-Admiral R. V. Holt, S.N.O. Berlin, To-day.strongly protested to the Japan- Yangtze, has again
Ten persons were killed near
Potsdam on Saturday when a goods ese authorities. Reuter. the Danzig Government, Polish on Wednesday, at which time train collided with an omnibus. could be brought to a halt. · The customs inspectors performed the position of Customs inspec- ried it more than 300 yards along 10 were killed and 10 seriously. The train hit the bus and car-bus was completely demolished and tors will be "clarified." Trans- Ocean.
the track before the locomotive injured.—Trans-Ocean.
GERMAN AIR ATTACHE DIES IN CRASH
CRISIS FORECAST
London, August 1. Fifteen thousand armed Germans were concentrated in Danzig and there were 400,000 German soldiers in Bohemia and Moravia, Polish observers in London declared to- duy when they forecast a crisis in the Free City "in the near future.” Of the armed force in Danzig, The investigation of the serious 8,000 men had recently come from aeroplane accident which occurred the Reich, they claimed. The de- last week near Barcelona (result-velopment of the situation in the ing in seven deaths) has revealed
Madrid, To-day.
Free
Poland ty
might shortly compel lodge a firm protest with
that the
* Madrid-Berlin bound air-the Danzig Senate as regards Nazi || craft lost its position in a fog and attempts against the status of the struck the side of the mountain Coll de Jou.
town.
Great importance was also gat tached to German reports that the Siegfried Line is fully manned in
The right wing struck first, view of expectations of impending cne motor being torn, loose and Germano-Polish-tension
the plane crashed into flames,
Among the victims was Col
onel von Scheere, Air Attache of the German Embassy in Madrid.
TENSION
Haves.
Sy Danzig, To-day.
One of the occupants of the A further increase in Danzig of plane evidently jumped through Polish tension was cleally notice- a window
afore, the crash, able yesterday. found some dig-
The demarche of the F'olish diplo matic representatives in Danzig on (Combinued on Page 84)
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