THE POLISH PROTEST.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 February 1918, Page 5

THE POLISH PROTEST.

.AGAINST PARTITION. Copenhagen, Feb. 18. ?Tlie Polish Government, in a proclamation, protests before God, the world and history against the new partition by the separation of Itholm (which has been given to the Ukraine). ''The Central Powers promised us Independence and have now bought peace with the Ukraine by selling a Polish province." The Lokal Anzeiger says the proclamation is equivalent to a declaration of war against the Central Powers, who liberated Poland from the Czar'a yoke. AUSTRIA AND PEACE. Copenhagen, Feb. 18. The Vienjm -paper Die Zeit says that, so far as Austria is concerned, the war has practically finished. Orf the other hand America has scarcely begun thinking about it- The people now look to Count Czernin and (President WilsonGermany must not interrupt the negotiations. GERMAN WAR LOSSES. New York, Feb. 18. The Paris correspondent of the New York World says that exhaustive inquiries show that the r -erman losses during the war total "$525,000, including 2,500.000 dead. The present German -effectives are estimated at 4,800,000. MELBOURNE, LTD., FOR RELIABLE STOCKINGS. Ladies, have you ever had the misfortune to buy a pair of stockings and find them go a nasty grey or purple color the first time they were washed ? Of course, you have, as we know that to be a common experience of hundreds of women, who neglected to buy their hosiery from us. Melbourne- all-wool cashmere hoso will not lose their color either in wear or in "laundry. This is the unasked-for testimony of thousands of Taranaki and Wanganui ladies, not counting the scores of customers from outside these-districts. In addition to quality, the prices are i lower—quality for quality—than anything offered to-day in New Zealand. We quote: Ladies' all-wool plain cashmere hose, 2/3, pair; ribbed ditto 2/11; plain cashmere Llama finish 3/6; pure Llama, 3/11. and 4/0; Jason lisle thread with caahmere feet and torn. 2/11 pair.