DANTZIG AND TESCHEN.

Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 15044, 11 April 1919, Page 5

DANTZIG AND TESCHEN.

CONFLICTING iNTERESTS-.

[Australian and N.Z. Cable Association)

(Received April 10. 7.30 p.m.) Paris, April 8. M. Paderewski, pleading for Poland, said to an interviewer that without Dantzig Poland would become an empty shell. If Teschen were lost Poland's industries would be crippled for want of coal.

On the other hand, Kraniarcz, in an interview, insists that the Czechs need Teschen's coal. He says that the Poles have ample coal in Silesia. If the Czechs' faith in the Alies is destroyed Bolshevism will "seize the Czech working classes. . ■