HELP FOR STARVING POLAND
DECLINED BY GERMANY. (Itcuter's Tclescrani.) Washington, August 2. Germany has declined President Wilson's request to allow contributed food from America to go to Poland. Germany claims that relief' will bo unnecessary after October 1. / [Viscount Grey (Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs), replying to an American appeal to all belligerent Governments to arrive at an agreement for the relief of Poland, said that the British Government desired to settle onco for all the whole question of tho importation of food-stuffs into territory in the occupation of the enemy. It would make tho following final proposal:—That Germanic Governments must reserve wholly -for the civil populations of these territories tho entire produce of the soil, .and all livo stock and foodstuffs, and place > the distribution and control of them in tho hands of neutral nominees of. President Wilson. The British Government will then admit imported food supplies to such territories to supplement the native stocks. This proposal, if accepted, must ho carried before tho forthcoming harvest is gathered-!
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2841, 4 August 1916, Page 5
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170HELP FOR STARVING POLAND Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2841, 4 August 1916, Page 5
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