GRAVE PROBLEM

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 143, 14 December 1938, Page 9

GRAVE PROBLEM

POLISH UKRAINE

WORSE THAN AT MEMEL

GERMAN INFLUENCE

(Ey Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) (Received December 14, II a.m.)

LONDON, December 13

The "Manchester Guardian" says that the problem of the Polish Ukraine is more serious than that at Memel, and that already a Ukrainian force is being formed in Carpathian Ruthenia to which German officers are being drafted. The situation will

M. Valdemitras.

probably be most acute in February. Well-informed people are of the opinion that the trouble can be solved without war, though it will create difficult problems for Western Powers. With regard to Memel, it is believed that the Lithuanians will accept "peaceful co-operation," thereby coming under German protection. The Memel correspondent of the British United Press says that a demand that the Lithuanian . Government resign and be replaced by the exiled former dictator, M. Valdemaras, was made today by a meeting of 2000 members of Lithuanian political parties, on the ground that the Government had surrendered to . Poland and alienated Germany.