POLAND AND GERMANY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 27, 2 January 1931, Page 7

POLAND AND GERMANY.

TASK FOR LEAGUE OF NATIONS. LONDON, Dec. 31. A most delicate situation awaits tho meeting of tho League of Nations Council on January 19, as an outcome of the Polish disturbances over the Gorman minorities. Germany already has dispatched to the League three Notes complaining that persons of German origin are deprived of votes. Germany also is sending Dr Curtius to Geneva to make most serious charges against Poland. It is likely that Mr Arthur Henderson, Foreign Secretary, will be asked to preside in view of Britain’s neutrality. It is alleged that tho Polish terrorism occurred in the corridor districts, which is ono of Europe’s danger spots. It is generally considered that Poland is in the wrong, an early admission of which would ease the tension. Franco, who is Poland’s ally, favours an inquiry, but the other Powers consider that the League Council should give a decision on tho evidence available without further delay. Tho 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 tho existence, north of Poland, of tho independent Republic of Lithuania. The “corridor” cuts off from tho rest of Germany a small portion of East Prussia, of which tho chief town is Konigsbcrg.