GERMANS IN POLAND

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 21, 26 January 1931, Page 9

GERMANS IN POLAND

ALLEGED ILL-TREATMENT

CONFIRMED BY LEAGUE

MISSION

GENEVA, 24th January.

The League Council, at a. final sitting, disposed of the German complaint of ill-treatment in, Polandfunanimously adopting the conclusions of the investigators, who found the incidents of such gravity and extent as to have justified the opinions that Poland had infringed the minorities convention in numerous cases. .-..'. • •' , The Council recommends: the public authorities in the regions concerned to place themselves above suspicion in connection with political strife, and declares that the "Insurgents' Federation inspired a spirit which was not destined to facilitate the approachment of tha two elements m'the population whose reconciliation is a condition of.; political consolidation of that part of Europe." , No such society should be allowed to hold a position prejudicing a minority. The Government should abolish personal relationships between the authorities and such associations,

At the head of the movement against the German minority is the Insurgent Association. The 'Woiwode (Polish Administrator), of Silesia is the honorary president of this association, and manyhigh officers of State are among ' its leading members. For many years this association has been the motive power of-all excesses against the German minority, and it was the organiser of a systematic campaign against the Germans in Silesia. Its power is all the greater because the 40,000 members knew they were protected by the influential personality of the president and "other high officials, and they expected that the police would not interfere with them.