TANNENBERG.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 688, 13 December 1909, Page 7

TANNENBERG.

s ♦ A BATTLE ANNIVERSARY. IDjr TltecraDli.--rrbaa AiiocUUmi ■ Onnyrlghtl London, Decombor 10. \ Two thousand American Poles will participate in tho coming five hundredth annivertary of tho Uattlo of Tanuenberg; to bo held in Galicia. They are boycotting German linore and travelling via Franco and Switzerland. ' Tonnenborg is a village in the province ol East Prussia, 11 miles south of Osterode. Here in 1410 tho Polish and Lithuanian army dc feated and broke tho power of the Tuetonic Order, a military, order founded at Acre, ir Palestine, in tl9o, and. comfirmed by the Emperor and the Pope. Some time ago a number of Polish merchants visited England. One of them, in explaining the rcasou of their visit, said: "Owing to the treatment by the Government of our .fellowcountrymen in that portion of "Poland which is under Gorman rale, the merchants in tho Rus sian and Austrian governed districts of Polanc have decided upon a boycott of all German goods, Hitherto a very large proportion oj tho orders of Warsaw merchants have beer given to German firms and tho imports -ffom Germany, in round. figures have been .£23,000,000 a year. As we have ceased to' deal with Germany jrn must buy in somo othei market, and it is with the idea of cementing business friendships and arrangements in England that we aro vieiting your country. Otviric to the boycott a largo.share of the i £23,000,00C of trade,hitherto dono with Germany is likely to tome, to England.. All sections of- industry in tYarsaw arp, represented among us."