POLISH REPUBLIC
OPENING OF THE DIET
GREAT REJOICING AT WARSAW
. (Rec. February 19, 11.30 p.m.) London, February 17. The "Daily News" Warsaw correspondent states that there was great popular demonstration oil the occasion of the opening of the Diet. The city was en fete, and thousands thronged the streets and cheered the Allied delegates, who were accompanied by M. Paderewski (the Premier) and the other Polish Ministers; —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. SHOCKING TREATMENT BY GERMANS OF REPATRIATED POLES. (Rec. February 19, 11.15 p.m.) Paris, February 17. The Polish Foreign Minister has protested to Germany and acquainted tho Allies with the treatment of the first batch of repatriated Polish deportees, comprising 25,000 men and women and 650 children, who were conveyed fo the Polish frontier in a day and a night in open trucks, while there was 21 degrees of frost, causing the death of fifty-six children. While at a frontier elation the Germans robbed the Poles of _ all their money, footwear, and extra clothing, and detained thc_ men between the ages of fifteen and thirty-five.—Renter.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 125, 20 February 1919, Page 5
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174POLISH REPUBLIC Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 125, 20 February 1919, Page 5
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