INFILTRATION OF POLES

Chronicle (Levin), 2 May 1946, Page 5

INFILTRATION OF POLES

Received Wednesday, 7 p.m. • . • LONDON, April 30. Allega'tio.ns ,that the Poles are inliltrating into Germany beyond the OderNeisse demarcatign line agreed upon at Potsdam, are CQJitai'ned in a protest which thh Christian Demoeratic Party of the A['eckjenburg Yorpoinmern Froyince.is lodging with the Allied Coutrol Council and the Russian military government, shys Reuter's Berlin correspondent. The Germans declare that Poles are driving Germans from the I'ich agricultural land west of the Oder and ai'e pillaging the population. They warn the Allies to "think twice" before permitting further Polish oceupation of the Vorpommern territory, espeeially the Island of Usedom in the Oder Estuary. Infiltration by Poles is apparently going on without Russian consent. Only a 12-mile stretch 011 the west bank of the Oder Estuary, just north of Stettin and Odermuende through Politz and Zeigenfort, has reinained comparatively untouched. The Russians are still busy in this area dismantling ' ' and packing factory machiner.y. There they have kept the Poles in eheek. ... . The Polish Foreign Minister, Mr. Modzielewski, is quoted by the Warsaw radio as saying Poland was astonished to learn that CzechoslOvakia had placed before the Foreigm. Ministers at Paris, a claim for Polish territory near the uoftheas.tefn tiotitieT oi Czechoslovakia. The Polish people were sliocked by the claiin which wtts regarded as a most unfriendly act. . ■