PROPOSED PROTOCOLS

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 10, 12 January 1929, Page 9

PROPOSED PROTOCOLS

NOTE TO NEIGHBOURS POLAND SURPRISED United Press Association—By Electric Telecrapli—Copyrißlit. Australian Vresa Association—UnltoU Service. (.Received 12th January, noon.) WARSAW, 11th January. Poland's reply to the Moscow Note sent to Poland and Lithuania suggesting the signature of special protocols with Eussia, giving effect to the Kellogg Pact, without awaiting its general completion, agrees to the principle of the plan, but says that Poland is astonished that Eussia should have addressed tho proposal only to Poland and Lithuania, and not to other 'of her neighbours. Poland is, moreover, astonished that Moscow approached Lithuania, which has no common frontier with Soviet Eussia, and which refuses to enter into diplomatic relations with Poland.. The reply adds that Poland has always maintained the necessity for. treating the problem of security, of Eastern Europe conjointly by all tho interested States. Only thus can there be effective guarantees for the maintenance of peace, hence she is consulting Latvia, I Esthonia, Finland, and Bumania before moving further. Incidentally, the reply points out that even tho initiators of the Kellogg Pact have not at present i ratified it. Being one of th 6 first signaI tories, the Polish Government ought first to c-omo to an agreement with the initiators on" the subject of partial enforceImentof the pact. '