Warsaw, July 22. per" has filed an energetic protest with the Danzig Senate concerning the death of M, Budziewicz, the Polish Customs official who was shot by a Danzig Customs official near Postelau en July 20. The protest alleges that the shooting occurred in Polish territory, when M. Budziewicz challenged three Germans who had "illegally" crossed the frontier.
An investigation, and punishment of the culprit, who is alleged to Be a Nazi Storm Trooper, are demanded.
The Polish police have arrested the chief of the Danzig Customs House, who is stated to have illegally crossed the frontier yesterday.
The Polish press reports that Father Bernard Wischi, former Polish candidate for the Danzig Volkstag, has been arrested by the Danzig: police, together with a Polish railwaymen, for "anti-Nazi activities."
An official Polish spokesman declared that the recent statement by Marshal Eduard Smigly-Rydz, Inspector-General of the Polish forces, that Poland would fight for Danzig if peaceful means failed, was Poland's last word on the subject; and those who thought Poland would be outmancuvred without a conflict should read this statement carefully.
The spokesman added: "The situation is serious. It depends upon German leaders whether the [fields of Europe be littered with millions of dead. A war for a provincial city, where the German population enjoys complete freedom, in not inevitable. Humanity desires peace; yet it must be understood that Po-industrialization and deficient in motorization," said the "Frankfurther Zeitung." "These things are decisive in 20th Century warfare. The Polish Army has a shortage of all modern weapons; the Reich's superiority would be overwhelming, even in a war on two fronts.
"Admittedly, many a British battlewagon may be landed at Gdynia in the next few years. But even if the Western Powers. continue this aid, and even if they station plane squadrons in Poland, their help cannot be decisive. Transport distances and technical difficulties of large scale shipments are too great to result in any great aid to Poland, while generous delivery of arms to Poland would weaken the Western Powers
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