POLAND WAITS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 100, 28 March 1939, Page 7

POLAND WAITS

ORDER TO MARCH?

BAR TO GERMAN PUSH

NATIONAL UNITY

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Gopyrigh t.) LONDON, March 27.

In Warsaw to-day, a meeting of ex-servicemen, attended by 7000 delegates, enthusiastically resolved that, as 'Roland was the only barrier to German progress eastward, they would calmly await the order to march.

They adopted a resolution declaring that the complete union of the whole nation under the President (M. Moscicki) and the Inspector-General of the Army (Marshal Sruigly-Rydz) was the urgent need. Poland must become- a fortress. Every Pole must stand to his post, rifle in hand. The Cultural Union at Katowice adopted a similar resolution.

A Warsaw message states that in an effort to unite all parties in a solid defence bloc, the Government is granting an amnesty to political exiles, of whom the most notable is the Peasant Party leader and former Premier (M. Witos). MASS PROCESSION. SLOGAN AND BANNERS. TESCHEN, March 26. Students and others joined a meeting of housewives and formed a procession of 14,000 people, who marched down the main street chanting slogans and flying banners emblazoned: “Poland is not Czechoslovakia—Danzig is not Mcniol.” VISIT TO LONDON. CONVERSATIONS IN APRIL. Received March 28, 10 a.m. LONDON, March 27. Colonel Beck (Polish Min ister of Foreign Affairs) will arrive here on April 4. as the guest of the Government. Conversations will begin the next day. CRISIS UNRELIEVED. OBSERVATION IN U.S.A. WASHINGTON, March 27. Signor Mussolini's 'speech is milder than was anticipated, but most observers feel that the European crisis has not been relieved.