1939-08-17 — Page 28

POLISH

GUARD KILLED

BERLIN, TO-DAY.

A POLISH FRONTIER GUARD WAS KILLED IN UPPER SILESIA NEAR BEUTHEN-SCHARLEY YES TERDAY BY THREE CIVILIANS IN THE COURSE OF AN ALTERCA- TION OVER A FRONTIER PASS, IT IS REPORTED BY THE "LOKAL ANZEIGER."

on the Numerous persons living Polish side of the frontier but working on the German side were provided with frontier passes but the Polish authorities has closed the Upper Sile- sian frontier, thus preventing the con- tinuing of work in Germany.

Numerous small incidents occurred the on Tuesday and Wednesday as guards confiscated frontier passes.

GERMAN-SLOVAKIA RAILWAY ACCORD

Berlin, To-day. Negotiations for purpose of regulat- between ing railway transportation

begun Germany and Slovakia were last week in Hamburg, and it announced yesterday that they progressed to the point of the initiall ing of an agreement.

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The pact contains, regulations garding customs and foreign exchange, passport inspection and frontier zone activities and the management of the frontier railway stations. Trans- Ocean.

ITALIAN AIR RECORD EASILY BEATEN

Paris, To-day:

As a police official at the Beuthen-

A new flying record for 10,000 kilo- Scharley frontier station attempted to deprive a worker of his pass, he was metres was set up on Wednesday by attacked by the man and two women,the French flier, Commander Rossi.

the and was fatally injured. The assai- lants escaped across the frontier into Germany. Trans-Ocean.

EUROPEAN WOMEN LOSE WATCHES

TWO EUROPEAN WOMEN HAD WRIST-WATCHES SNATCHED YES- TERDAY IN BROAD DAYLIGHT.

Mrs. B.T. Flanaghan, residing at No. 7, Garden Terrace, was walking

Using a two-motored plane of type "Amiot 370," Rossl left Istres on Tuesday morning at 4.50 o'clock, ac- companied by a wireless operator, M. Emont.

Flying over a closed course, he es- tablished a record of 811.621 kilome- tres per hour thus exceeding the pre- vious récord of 236.970 kilometres held Air Force by a wide by the Italian margin.-Trans-Ocean.

snatched off her wrist-watch.

The watch was valued at $150. The second victim was Mrs. D.G. Wilson, of No. 74, MacDonnell Road. in Connaught Road Central near the Her wrist-watch, valued at $120, was Peter Music Company. yesterday after-snatched while she was walking along noon, when a chinese approached and Tramway Path near Kennedy Road.

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Kwangchowwan, To-day. Several Japanese transports loaded with troops, a large num- ber of armed trawlers and junks, and an aircraft carrier are now concentrated at Hoihow, accord- ing to official Chinese messages.

Reports have been mevitably renewed that a Pakhol invasion, by the Japanese is imminent, Our Own Correspondent.

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