Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-08-28 | Page 4 | Danzig Orders School Closing

DANZIG ORDERS SCHOOL CLOSING I DANZIG Aug 28 UP All schools were closed today Many teachers had been conscripted into the army anny and schoolhouses were needed for barracks This free tree port area was wa ringed with guns and barbed wire and Its Hs leaders awaited only the sIgnal signal sig zig- nal from Adolf Hitler to deliver It to the reich and fight of off Poland Poland Po Po- land until German troops came cameto cameto cameto to the rescue It was estimated that Danzig min men with shining new equipment were guarding the 75 7 mile mUe frontier facing fhe he Polish corridor On the other side were the troops and guns of German East Prussia Prussia- Preparations were so complete that troops were given a practice alarm last Jast night Soldiers on duty rounded up all aU those on leave from streets and cafes to determine how quickly they could get Into their barracks As a means of enforcing food conservation It was announced that hat the names of known hoarders hoard hoard- ers would be published Danzig authorities al alt nazis took ook over railroad stations at Hohenstein Troyl and ven yen charging that Poles had tried to o ship contraband munitions Po- Po land and is supposed to control Danzig Danzig Danzig Dan Dan- zig railroads