STRAIGHT TALK TO POLAND.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVIII, Issue LXXVIII, 16 June 1919, Page 5

STRAIGHT TALK TO POLAND.

FRENCH UNEASY

GERMANY'S INTRIGUE CAUSES

ALARM

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYEIGHT

PARIS. June 9

Some straight talk passed between the Council -oi Four and M. Paderewski, in which it was pointed out that Poland had not suffered much during the war, and the Powers could not be expected *© go to war over Poiand; therefore, some frontier modifications might be expected, and that a further commission might be expected to consider the M. Meyer, tie Polish delegate, is reported to have said: "The concessions "we are asked to make in favor of"the Germans are both territorial and economic. They are manifestly unjust, and > while ready to submit to them, we cannot forego the surrender of upper which would leave Poland at mercy, deprive the Poles of their coal mines, and paralyse industry."

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PARIS, June 10.

The Polish, armies facing the Germans number 200,000. General Haller leads the main body, .which is concentrated in the north ready to march on Danzig.

A number of disaffected AustroHungarian generals are -employed in other forces concentrated towards &he Silesian objectives, while armies watch the Russian, Czecho-Slovakian and Ukrainian frontiers.

(Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn,) PARIS. June 9^

French opinion is disquieted over the

rumors -of possible alterations in the .treaty and the possible early admission ■*■ of Germany to the League of Nations. Some newspapers are apprehensive of Germany emerging from the war with a diplomatic victory superior to our miltary victory. They, see a Germany beaten by our armies, but relieved by intrigue—a Germany strangely similar to that under the Hohenzoilerns, pre_ paring for revenge 'before she is conetrained to avow defeat.

LON(DON, Jim© 10. Berlin telegrams state that Prince Max is urging opposition to the treaty because popular sentiment against the terms is growing in foregn countries. He quotes English liberals and La/bor_ ites as disapproving of the terms.