POLAND REACHES THE SEA

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 120, 14 February 1920, Page 7

POLAND REACHES THE SEA

RE-MARRIAGE WITH TP BALTIC:

London,, February, 12. - Tho "Daily- .Chronicle's" Polish- correspondent states that Eut-zig, a seaside resort on' Ihe Baltic, coast (2G. miles' north-west of Danzig'), ■ was the, scene of a meniorablo ceremony on January 10. Polish cavalry, under. General Haller, rodo fetlock deep into tho waves, sym-. bolosing that Poland's ' territory once nioro reached the Baltic.' A'.Polish troop completed (lie occupation of the "corridor" separating Prussia. from Danzig. The populace-.boisterously .welcomed tho troops,-and the.roads were garlanded with flowprs. . .'. , .' • Another message states, that in--\tlm presence of- ■ detachments of British, French, and other Allied troops, and amid the booming of guns. General Holler's cavalry rodo into the half-frozen waters of tli'e Gulf-of .Danzig, and as they rode back,from the sea tliev dismounted and closcd round a 'flagstaff; where a Catholic Bishop dedicated the Polish colours. General Haller drew oil' a golden ring and-(lung it far out. fo sea, crying: "As Venice symbolised her marriage with the Adriatic, so do.we Poles.symbolise our re-marriage with our dear Baltic."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.