The Archive · 1939

Into Free City

Ammunition and Men Pour — Sixteen Guns Arrive Near Danzig; Town Full — Of Young Germans; Poland Rushes Defences

Warsaw, June 30, IMMUNITION and men are continuing to reach Danzig from East Prussia, according to semi-official reports from Danzig today. Sixteen guns are said to have been disembarked yesterday at a bay east of Danzig and were taken aboard trawlers to Bischofsberg, where the Danzig authorities are feverishly erecting concrete gun emplacements.

Access is prohibited to the hill, which is surrounded by a cordon of police and Storm Troopers.

The barracks on the hill has been transfer ed into an ammunition dump.

Several hun: ed Storm Troopers are reported to have arrived in Danzig. Nazis who have arrived from East Prussia to form a Freikorps are being housed in Danzig's pre-war underground fortifications.—Reuter.

Berlin, June 30.

Official quarters here today strongly denied that German troops or officials have been introduced into Danzig, or that a Freikorps is being formed.

They admitted, however, that Danzig is strengthening its peace force within legal limits, employing only Danzig citizens.

The reason for this move is ascribed to the "impudent, irresponsible behaviour" of Polish officials and others in the Corridor.

News from Danzig received through unofficial sources suggests that something is certainly in progress there and the situation, if anything, has changed for the worse, Rumours of German troop redistributions, as usual, are impossible to verity.—Reuter.

Berlin, June 29.

Alarming rumours were circulating in Berlin today as it was stated that officers and the greater part of the rank-and-file of the German Army would not receive any leaves after the end of July.

Moreover, it was claimed that Reserves now under the colours would not be sent home at the end of August, on completion of regular terms of service, but would be kept under arms to the, end of September.—Havas.

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