OFFICIAL WAR REVIEW.

Evening Star, Issue 16822, 26 August 1918, Page 8

OFFICIAL WAR REVIEW.

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■. ♦. ' (Continued from page 4.) The Polish question, which lias for a long time hung up the German policy, v. as recently reported to be near solution. Austria, wanted a union of .Russian cud Austrian Poland as part of an Austro-Hungarian Empire, while Germany wi,s anxious to keep the triple division of Poland, «i> tlia*-German-Poland should not be the onh uuicdeemed terrih>i\ The compromise new i» thai Auhduke Kail Stephen, •-hould hi in.ide Km; < ' Poland, in close eounei Lion with Geiniaiiy.Avith n teintory. v.liuli might in elude parts of White Russia, whine thei'e arc big landed estates owned in the Poles, though the population is Jtussiftn'. ''Bufrihis Kingdom ■■■■would <oii taia none of the pies-ent Au.stuan Moreover, biah an artiSciii new Poland would have to relv lj>i protection agam-t tho universal Russian indignation." wxjuld iiive German policy almost all it wants but'it a- in whether Austn.i will acquiesce. ' ' ''<'•} , . , Eussia more and moic realises the ol the Hie-t-buoysK Treaty, and a strom- anti-Geimau feeling rstrengtlions. The German hni bas*y is reported to "have fled fiom Moscow-' protected-by German sold leidisguised in liussiai: uniioiins It found Petrogra.d iii.tjifl hand- nt bilteih hostile social revolut.oiumes, and being unfile to travel to P>kq\ was com pelled to go via Hehingfors and Beval. *„' > The unexpeeie ! arrival of British 'Baku nive- a fresh revelation of British rt'Kouicefuli'.ess. and adds a Urgcy'.Faetoi to l'" 1 many problems which Germanv and Tin key nm-t solve" between them. <■ Xoiie of Lhe.sc problems will be easily solved, since each-is. on tin- w .l-t term 1 - with BulGrea! Brit..in's rigid, rationing of toal for dome t i lonsunipliou and nonessential i'-.lurries fives vet another instance of the -aclinic to which she ;;,..binits m order to meet the hea\> demand- of tho military IM M. S Clwffliciau. 6 the French Prime Minister, and Marshal Focli have just nabl a noble tribute to the work of the British roal miners, and urging them to yet U»ore strenuous efforts, since coal us as essential to victory as are men ana munitions. , ________