LITHUANIA AND POLAND.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19171, 30 November 1927, Page 9

LITHUANIA AND POLAND.

BRITAIN'S ATTITUDE. NO ALARM FELT. (by cable— pkess association—copyright.) (austealian and k.z and sun cable.) (Received November 29th, 8.15 p.m.) LONDON, November 29. In the House of Commons Mr G. Locker-Lampson, in answer to a question, said the Council of the League of Nations was about to examine the tension between Poland and Lithuania. He trusted a settlement would be reached, resulting in the restoring of friendly relations. Tho Government had no confirmation of tho alarmist rumours published in the Press, and felt confident that neither Party would be unwise enough to act rashly while the League's deliberations were pending. Poland had just assured the League that she had no designs on Lithuania's political independence or territorial integrity, and only desired the restoration of normal relations and the termination of the state of war Lithuania was maintaining against Poland. ALARMIST REPORTS. SOVIET SCHEME FAILS. (AUSTRALIAN AND H.I. AND SUN CABLE.) | LONDON, November 28. The Berlin correspondent of the "Dispatch" states that the Soviet's plot to secure Germany's co-operation in alarming the world by proclaiming the danger of war in Eastern Europe has failed. On the eve of the Geneva Disarmai ment Conference, the Soviet has . been | trying to get on the European political stage in the role of a guardian of the peace, therefore they invented the story of the danger of a war from which they alone were able to save Europe. The difficulties existing in Lithuania and Poland since 1923, when the Council of Ambassadors gave Vilna to Poland, were exploited and the Soviet's propaganda agents spent days engineering the preliminary newspaper campain, which culminated In the presentation of the Soviet's Note at Warsaw, a Note written by M. Tchitcherin, the cleverest intriguer in Europe, and M. Litvinoff's visit to Dr. Stresomann, in an attempt to bolster up the grotesque war scare. Dr. Stresemann's organ, "Taglische Rundschau," denies that Cabinet even discussed M. Litvinoff's visit and points out that General Pilsudski would not have gone almost ostentatiously _ to Vilna if Poland were actually plotting an attack on Lithuania. Furthermore, it denies that Germany intends to make representations to Kovno or Warsaw. Thus the Bolsheviks got no encouragement from Berlin to pose as the saviours of Europe from an imaginary war and then circulate the hat among a grateful audience for badly needed money. OFFICIAL CIRCLES UNRUFFLED. (AUBTBALUX ARD K.B. CABLI ASSOCIATION.) (Received November 29th, 8.25 p<m.) LONDON, November 29. British, official circles are unruffled by she Continent's anxiety over the problem of Poland, and Lithuania, and are sanguine that no untoward event will occur now that both sides have appealed to Geneva. One comment is that the is in no way worse because the Soviet jay is suddenly trying to imitate the dove.