Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, MARCH6,1919. PRUSSIAN POLAND'S CHOICE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1948, 6 March 1919, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, MARCH6,I9I9. PRUSSIAN POLAND'S CHOICE.

AT (lie opening of the Provisional Provincial Diet at Posen, which‘will act until the union of Poland i- delinitely achieved, M. Ladislas Seyda, of tin' Polish Parliamentary Party in Berlin, declared that the reconstructed and united Poland would be democratic, and would resiled all political opinions, as well as all religions confessions. The Polish mil ion, he added, had ranged itself on 1 lit* side of the Allies, ns the Polish Army in Erance, under the Polish National Committee in Paris, bore witness. This army had been recognised by the Allied Powers as an allied and co-belligerent army. Thus the Polish nation, represented before the Entente by the said Polish National Committee, would have, at (he Peace Conference, a voice.like that of oilier nations. The Diet passed a resolution demanding categorically that all Polisli territories inhabited for centuries by Polos, should he reunited, and that the crime of the partitions be thus riglited. The Diet is composed of representatives elected by the Polish population in all districts in the Polish provinces of Prussia. M. Nowicke. a workman delegate from the city of Posen, was elected President. ,

fatigue. The victim is at first exalted, ami, no matter how greatly he has been overworking or how overwrought his nervous system may be, lie feels strong ami happy. But the time comes when he cannot do without cocaine, and deprivation brings depression, terror, hallucinations, and even madness. 'Che great majority of its victims are destroyed by the drug. How widespread the use of the drag may-become can be seen from the fact that less than 1 per cent, of the cocaine sold in Philadelphia in one year passed into the hands of doctors and dentists, and only .from 3 per cent, to <S per cent, of that sold in New York, Boston, Chicago, and St. Louis was used professionally. The balance was supplied to private buyers, and sold in drug and grocery stores, or by tramp pedlars. In India it has been officially estimated that natives who take to the drug die as a rule in three months. The habit was recognised as a grave menace to India, and strong steps wen l taken to cope with it. It has lately spread to China.