BRITISH OCCUPATION OF DANZIC.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLIV, Issue 14026, 7 April 1920, Page 2

BRITISH OCCUPATION OF DANZIC.

According to a special correspondent of the Berliner -Tageblatt, who lately arrived in Danzig, the town looked' to the British occupation with anything but anxiety. \Ve were told that the population, which ha.s just bidden farewell to the departing German garrison with enthusiastic •• demonstrations, awaits its foreign masters in "feverish excitement. One would naturally suppose that this Excitement arose from feelings of antipathy and apprehension; but, no, its cause is evidently to be fouiid rather in opposite sentiments.

The correspondent ieven thinks it necessary to insist that.it is not "love" which is at work here, but merely the idea that the occupation is the "only aid out of. {he intolerable hybrid situation that the Free State now assumes." He must, however, admit that, whatever your question may be, and to whomever* it may be addressed, high or low. th© answer is always the same. "The English will put it right." -The currency difficulty will l>e settled by the the negotiations with the Poles will be mediated by the English, the Bolshevik danger will be dealt-with by the Eng- . lish; the food problem will be solved by the English, and so on. So that the chief burgomaster, Herr Sahm, was apparently only Jexpressing the general opinion of the townspeople when he told a correspondent that: "at - present there is a certain confidence that. Sir Reginald Tower look after the. interests of the town in . a fatherly manner."