THE NEW STATE OF POLAND

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17111, 17 March 1919, Page 5

THE NEW STATE OF POLAND

OLD LIMITS RESTORED: OUTLET TO THE BALTIC. EAST PRUSSIA INDEPENDENT. Australian ami N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. 5.S p.m.) PARIS, Mar. 15. The Polish Commission has furnished its report. It is believed that Poland practically regains the frontier existing before the first partition in 1772. Danzig and the adjoining port of Neufahrwasser are given to Poland, which is thus assured of a coastline 25 miles long. The Danzig-Thorn and DanzigMlawa railways will be Polish. There will also be a Polish mouth of the Lower Vistula. It is reported that the Council of Ten favour making a strip of territory along the Baltic between Elbing and Lithuania a separate and independent State. General Barthelemy, a member of the Allied Mission, reports that the Poles will soon be able to place three-quarters of a million troops in the field to resist Bolshevik aggression. The Supreme War Council has agreed to send General Henrys to Poland to assist General Pilsudski. The newspaper Le Matin reports that tho German military delegates at Posen have broken off negotiations with the Entente Commission and left the city. The immediate cause of the rupture is hoped -and believed to be due to the Germans' refusal to comply with the Entente's demand to withdraw artillery in the region of the Danzig shore.