POLAND.

Timaru Herald, Volume CVIII, Issue 16799, 1 April 1919, Page 9

POLAND.

' THE QUESTION. A SERIOUS HITCH. Australian and N,Z. Cable Assn. LONDON, March 28. The "Deutsches Zeitung" urges the Government to stand firm. It describes the reply to the Entente as the first firm act of a weak Government. ," The "Tageblatt" says: The Poles cannot be regarded as allies of the Entente. They were not one of the Powers with which Germany concluded an armistice. The Entente has; experienced a surprise in Hungary. They must surely see that rthe Germans will not subscribe to a peace that will condemn them to an indeterminate period of slavery and deny them the right of .self-dcitermination, as well as reducing them to the treatment of cattle.

'' "Vorwaerts" says: The Entente apparently wishes to satisfy ithe Poles' aspirations by securing Dantzig, this regardless of resultant dangers in the East. The, Entente's threats of the termination of the armistice are scarce, ly conceivable.

, ~ POLISH SUCCESSES

'"" AMSTERDAM, March 29. " l A telegram from. Warsaw says that *h e Poles expelled the Bolsheviks from \j£linsk, which is the great centre of propaganda. "' The Poles are also progressing in East Galicia.

The Ukrainians are retiring in disorder along the Kokowiocd-Jaworow line.

Field Marshal von Hindenburg inspected the troops on the PosenSilesian front.

UNITY OF COMMAND

| PARIS, March 30. i General Mangin will command the Roumanian-Polish armies . There will thus be'unity of command from the Baltic to the Black Sea. The Supreme- Council is also re-arm-ing Roumania, sending locomotives and ,other and in addition ii .assisting Serbia in view of the Hungarian * ' THE ALLIED ULTIMATUM. PARIS, March 29. A telegram from Warsaw says' that tthe Germans' have notj. yet replied to tlje Alhed ultimatum'demiuialng facilities landing Poles at .ibantzig.