POLAND IN WRONG

Hawera Star, Volume LI, 3 January 1931, Page 15

POLAND IN WRONG

TROUBLE WITH GERMANY

LEAGUE’S DELICATE TASK

(United Press Association —Bv Electric Tee graph j Copyright.) j LONDON, Dec. 31. A most- delicate- situation awaits the meeting of the League of Nations. Council on January D), as an outcome of the- Polish disturbances over the I German minorities. j Germany already has dispatched to I the League three Notes complaining t that persons of German origin are <le- , -piuve-d: off, /votes. Germany also, is , sending Dr. Curtius to Geneva to make i most -serious charges against Poland, t

It is likely that Air Arthur Henderson, Foreign Secretary, will be asked to preside m view of Britain’s neutrality.

It is alleged that the- Polish terrorism occurred in the corridor districts which is one of Europe's danger spots, it- is generally considered that Poland is in the wrong, an early admission ol which would ease the tension. France, who is Poland’s ally, favours an inquiry jbut the other Powers consider that the League Council should give a decision on the evidence available without further delay.

The Polish “corridor” is a strip of territory given to Poland by the- Treaty of Versailles in order to secure for Poland access to the Baltic Sea, otherwise not available, because of the existence ,north of Poland, of the- independent republic of Lithuania. The “cor-

.rdior” cuts off from the rest- of Germany a small portion of East- Prussia. of which file chief town is Ivonigsberg.