CRISIS IN POLAND.

Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 15075, 19 May 1919, Page 5

CRISIS IN POLAND.

THE EASTERN OFFENSIVE,

PADEREWSKI'S PLEDGE REPUDI-

ATED

THE PREMIER'S RESIGNATION

(Australian and N.Z. Cable i-^ociation)

(Received May 18, 5.5 p.m.) ■ Warsaw, May 17 >' A grave crisis has arisen-in Poland i owing to the Diet refusing to support 1 Paderewski's Paris pledge to cease the offensive on the East Galician front. > Pilsudski, the commander-in-chief, supported Paderewski in view of the • latter securing Mr Hoover's assurance that Poland would he fed and supplied 1 with, raw materials. Pilsudski cancel--1 led the arrangements for the offensive, i The Diet repudiated the Paris nego- > tiations arid compelled Pilsudski to reI sign or attack. Thereupon Paderewski resigned. j It is prohablo that the public ' [ will support Paderewski when the importance of the Hoover negotiations is revealed.