The Archive · 1939

Poles Ready For Moves

On Danzig — Blunt Warning to Reich Issued by Journal SPECIAL TO THE "N.CDN."

Warsaw, May 16.

Referring to the "fantastic rumours" regarding Danzig in an inspired article, the Polish newspaper "Dobry Wieczor" bluntly says that if Danzig were to be attacked from East Prussia, the Poles would be the first to arrive in the Free City in view of their strategic advantage, as the Free City is separated from East Prusesia by the Vistula and joined to the Polish hinterland by three railway lines and seven roads.

Commenting on the rumours of a plebiscite in Danzig, the journal hints that Poland's answer would be to march into the Free City.

Foreign observers who have returned from the Polish Corridor declare that German charges of ill-treatment of Germans by Poles appear to be totally unfounded.

Reports from Berlin state that, while there are still no hints as to the next German move on the Danzig question, the German press steadily maintains insistence on the alleged existence of anti-German influence in Poland.

German newspapers speak of "Poland's nervousness and difficulties arising from her continual mobilization," and still publish allegations of Polish terrorism.—Reuter.

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