IN EASTERN EUROPE

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 12 January 1929, Page 5

IN EASTERN EUROPE

MAINTENANCE OF PEACE.

POLAND’S VIEWS EXPRESSED. REPLY TO SOVIET NOTE. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) (Australian Press Association —United Service.) . Received 10.10 a.m. to-day. WARSAW, Jan. 11.

Poland’s reply to Moscow’s note dated December 29 agrees to the principle of the plan, but Poland is astonished that Russia addressed the proposal only to Poland and Lithuania and not to her other neighbours 1 . Moreover. Poland was astonished that Moscow had appi’oached Lithuania, which has no common frontier with Soviet Russia and which refuses to enter diplomatic relations with Poland. The reply adds: “Poland has always maintained the necessity for treating the problem of. security in Eastern Europe conjointly by all interested States. Only thus can effective guarantees' bo maintained and peace he* obtained. Hence Poland is consulting Latvia, Esthonia, Finland and Rumania before moving further.” Incidentally the reply points out that even the initiators of the Kellogg oaot have not at present ratified it. Being one of the first signatories, the Polish Government ought to first come to an agreement with the initiators on the subject of the partial enforcement of the pact.