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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 18, 1939

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POLAND TIGHTENS UP BORDER PRECAUTIONS All Roads To Slovakia, Moravia, Barricaded TROOPS TAKE POSITIONS

IN DEFENCE LINE

Maerhischboastrau, Moravia, To-day.

FOLLOWING THE BLOCKING of roads leading to Bohemia-Moravia and Slovakia, partly by bar- ricades, the Polish authorities are now evacuat- ing their offices in Olst territory.

The Polish district offices at Freistadt, Karwin and Teschen were evacuated yesterday. Documents were loaded onto motor lorries and taken into the interior of the country under a military guard.

The evacuation of further office buildings in eastern Silesia

is expected. ·

taking, but of taking back and

All "small frontier traffic" was Poland and Germany, it is not a ques- suspended yesterday.

tion Polish officers, it is learned, inspect- | "giving back and

of giving and ed the frontier in the sector of Schon- restitution." hof Michalkowitz and Hermanitz on Wednesday.

Military night manoeuvres took -place in the region of Reichwaldau

and Frestadt.

Rejecting the idea that the Cor- ridor is Polish, he declares, “Any country which like Poland forcibly in- cluded at least eight million” Ukrain- ians within its frontiers and just re- -The frontiers are occupied by Polish cently took a large slice of Czecho- troops. Troops arriving in Oralau slovakia, need not accuse us of violat- and Poremba were billeted there, while ing the nationality Polish troop movements occurred in self-determination

principle of the the frontier region of Teschen, Karwin | Trans-Ocean.

of peoples." and Lonkau. Horses were requisi- tioned in the Teschen area.

BALLOONS SENT UP

Twenty captive balloons are sent. up in the Peterswald and Deutsch- Leuten district

every evening and

- remain in the air all night as a balloon *barrage.

All men up to the age of 50 have -to report to the local authorities, re- gardless of their nationality.-Trans- Ocean..

"NEAR" EXPLOSION

Berlin, To-day.

is

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FINSBURY'S DEEP

SHELTERS

and

Finsbury Borough Council has de- cided to defy the Government proceed with its scheme to build 15 deep shelters.

cost of about £100,000, and. that work of construction is to proceed al- most immediately.

The German-Polish situation

The A.R.P. Committee has recom- rapidly approaching explosion point, mended the council to adopt a scheme declares the "Frankfurter Zeitung." for a deep shelter in Busaco-street, at

"Entrenched behind British assura ances, Poland has removed the fron- tier question with Germany out of the sphere of neighbourly discussion and has made it the subject of controversy involving power politics" writes the paper, "These questions have thereby assumed a position which demands a solution. So much has now happen- ed that further developments in this direction cannot be permitted."

Echoing the sentiment, other Berlin papers devote the front page, and most of the second, exclusively to Po- lish news and alarmist reports from that country.

PROPOSAL REJECTED

The shelter will hold about 7,600 people in an air raid and will be safe from all types of bombs or gas. It will be 80 feet underground and there will be purifying plant for drawing in fresh air.

The council has come to an arrange- ment with Shop Investments Limited to finance the scheme.

REPURCHASE PROVISION

Alderman H. Riley, the chairman, explained the scheme to the members of the council,

The company is to be granted a The proposal of a thirty-day armis-lease of the site for 40 years, and will - tice by the American politician, pay an annual rental of £50...

Hamilton Fish, who is now in Oslo, is The council will pay £7,400 a year rejected by German political circles for the use of the shelter which is with the comment that when illness equal to a rate of 1d. It may re- has reached an acute stage, phy-purchase the shelter at a price which sicians do not attempt to deal with it diminishes every five years. by suspending treatment for four If there is no repurchase the shel- weeks.

ter will revert to the council after 38

The "Hamburger Fremdenblatt" | years, touches upon conference rumours by Other shelters will be constructed stating "Such a peace plan would be under similar conditions. the platform of polley which has, as its aim, the forcing of the Greater German Reich into a position of secondary importance."

ANTAKE AND TAKE The diplomatic correspondent of the -“Boersen Zeitung" writes that between

"We applied to the Ministry of Health to raise a loan to construct deep shelters," said the chairman, “but were referred to the Home Office. We are not going to be left without pro- tection for the people of the borough. We have driven an expréss train through the Government restrictions,”

Factories all over England are making plans for the camouflaging of their buildings, with a view to making them inconspicuoua from the air. This picture shows the experiment with a camouflage model of a famous razor factory on the Great West Road, showing a falac`rgad over the top of the factory, a factory clock resembling an ordinary cfock tow- er and giving the district a semi-suburban appearance. The small build- ings shown are "blinds" to distract from the main factory which In It- self occupies a large area. The factory itself will be painted similarly

at a later date.

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