POLISH FEROCITY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21243, 26 January 1931, Page 7

POLISH FEROCITY

THE GERMAN COMPLAINT. LEAGUE’S DECISION. (United Press Association.) (By Electric .Telegraph—Copyright.) GENEVA, January 24. (Received Jan. 25, at 9 p.m.) The League Council, at its final sitting, disposed of the German complaint of illtreatment by Poland by unanimously adopting the conclusions of the rapporteur, Mr Yoshikawa, who found that the incidents • were of such gravity and extent as to have justified the opinion that Poland had infringed the Minorities Convention in numerous cases. The council recommends the public authorities in the regions concerned to place themselves above suspicion in connection with political strife,, and declares that the insurgents’ federation “has inspired a spirit which is not destined, to facilitate a rapprochement of the two elements of the population, whose reconciliation a condition of political consolidation in that part of Europe.” No such society should be allowed to hold a position in which it can prejudice the minority, and the Government should abolish the personal relationships between the authorities and such associations. At the League of Nations Council the German delegate (Dr Curtins) protested against Poland’s anti-German ferocity and violent intimidation of Germans in Poland without the slightest restraint by the authorities. M. Zaleske, Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs, replied that the trouble was due to the anti-Polish campaign in Germany. The Government had already punished a number of the culprits.