GERMANS V. POLES

Hokitika Guardian, 4 December 1930, Page 5

GERMANS V. POLES

TALK OF AN ARMY,

[United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)

RERUN, December 2

German-Polish tension has been revealed by resolutions passed by the Foreign Affairs Committee of tile Reichstag, which despite the Foreign Minister, Herr Curtiss's opposition, demanded the repudiation ol the negotiations for a Germane-Polish commercial treaty, and the revocation of the liquidations agreement with Poland. The Comffiittee protested against acts of terrorism against German minorities, and insisted on the punishment of guilty Poles, and on compensation for victims.

The Committee, however, rejected a Nationalist Party motion for the raising of an army of a hundred thousand from the unemployed to protect Germany as against Poland ,and also for. Germany’s withdrawal from the League of Nations ; but the Committee agreed to a demand to recall the German representatives from the Preparatory Disarmament Conference at Geneva because the other Powers were not fulfilling their obligations. GENEVA, December 2.

“Public op nion is fed up with the words ‘as soon as possible.’ ” impatiently 'declared Count Bernstorff (German delegate) at the Disarmament Commission. “It wants something mode definite/” This outburst which somewhat ruffled the placidity of the meeting, accompanied Count Bernstorff’s motion that the main Conference should convene on November oth, 1931,

Lord Cecil (Britain) contended that the League Council in January should fix the date. Other delegates supported this.

Italy, Bulgaria and Russia sided with Count Bernstorff, whose resolution however, wns lost.