THE POSEN AFFAIR.

Taihape Daily Times, 2 January 1919, Page 6

THE POSEN AFFAIR.

*■ AMERICAN FLAG TORN DOWN COPENHAGEN, Dccmber 31. Accounts of the-fighting at Posen state that German officers, after fir- i ing their r revolvers, stopped a motor carrying the" American flag and threw the flag on to the j ground. ’.■• Polish guards drove •off the Germans after fighting lasting til! midnight. It is reported that-thirty-eight women and children -and about TOO men were killed, j Polandcrs now control public build-1 ings. They have dismissed the Workmen’s and Soldiers’ Councils, .and i arc disarming returned troops as they arrive, but there has boon some resistance and severe fighting. The British Mission protested against the disorder. General Schcmclpleing declared that he had no control over the soldiers. Ho added that he could not permit the enemy’s flags in Prussia.