Warsaw, Aug. 23. NE German soldier is believed to have been wounded in a frontier incident reported from Polish sources at Czonstochow. Three German soldiers are stated to have crossed the frontier seeking German deserters.
Polish guards, the report says, ordered the Germans back but they refused and the Poles fired with the result that one German soldier, the report states, is believed to have been wounded.—Reuter.
Berlin, Aug. 23.
Having recovered from Herr Hitler's extraordinary rapprochement with Soviet Russia, Germany is now keenly awaiting developments, which are expected thick and fast after Herr Joa~ chim von Ribbentrop, the German Foreign Minister, arrives in Moscow. The signature of the non-aggression pact is expected within only a matter of hours, and once signed Germany's next steps may follow rapidly.
Thursday, on this reckoning, may prove a hi day in European history.
There is reason to think that Germany's army is absolutely ready to move at a moment's notice, Rumours being circulated abroad that German troops have been ordered to occupy Danzig and the Polish Corridor at dawn tomorrow were discredited here today.
Nothing known in responsible circles of any such plans.
General Walther von Brauchitsch, Commander-In-Chief of the German Army, will address the Army over the wireless on Saturday even pan. until 830 pam, it wi here today.
British residents have not yet been instructed to leave.
'OMicial quarters in Berlin refuse to anticipate events, but in well-informed German political circles it is indicated that Germany's desire is to veoccupy her pre-war territories and Teave it at that.
There is some loose talk about the partition of Poland, but the best in~ formed opinion is "inclined to anticipate a continuation of an independent Polish state, which would be fquaranteed an outlet for her trade via Danzig and Gxdnia—Reuter,
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