The Archive · 1931

POLAND'S DEMAND REFUSED

Danzig, Apr. 25.

'The tension between the Free City of Danzig and Poland continues unabated and is leading to extraordinary developments. Count Gravina, the League of Nations Commissary for the Free City of Danzig, to-day returned an uncompromising' refusal to the astonishing note delivered to im by Poland and demanding the right to march Polish police or troops into the territory of Danzig "in order to restore security." The Polish claim was based on the fact tata citizen of Danzig. recent! illed in self-defence a Polish railway official who had attacked him, this fact being established beyond any doubt, The Commissary of the League of ations, in his reply, points out that ithe statutes of the League only allow Polish armed interference in. the case that there should be a military threat to the Polish goods depots jin the harbour of Durczig., It further emphasizes that complete order in Danzig and that the a of the Free City are per-to look after the

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