New Britain herald., 1918-07-13
HUBERT DENOUNCES
 GERMAN PROPOSALS
Local Doctor DiSSeCts Infamous Terms Offered Devastated Poland

Dr. Julius Rupert of this city. writ
 ing to the New York Sun. denounces
 Hefmany's proposals to devastated . Foland, in the following letter:
 10 the Editor of The Sun-Sir: The FoleS can neither consider seriously , nor accept nor tolerate without vio-
 lent protests Germanys plan for a
 Tree Poland as published by the ; Augsburg Abend Zeitung. That plan ! IS an attempt to destroy in install ments the national, political and in
 dustrial body of Poland. Such a , brutal policy can be imposed on Po- , land only by a permanent military { occupation of the country by PEus- 1 sian executioners.
 ! Poland's answer will be q contin- l uous revolt against the Germans. l Down with Prussia! Down with Aus l tria! We wish all as just punishment,
 miseries and defeat to the German 1 oppressors of Poland, whose policy 1 since Bismarcks time is to extermin- l ate the Poles. Glory and triumph [ are due to America that promised us 1 a united. free and independent dem 1 OcratiC Poland with access to the ! seas.
 l The promises to Poland cannot be 1 kept, the Polish problem not justly solved, without disannexing from 1 Austria. Galicia and part of Silesia 1 from Germany Posen and parts of 1 East Prussia and Silesia Prussia ] would consider it a supreme sacrifice l to return the stolen Polish lands. She ] will concede it only when her own 1 armies have crossed in flight the 1 Rhine back into Germany, when the Allies armies have taken Trieste and ] Laibach and driven the Germans 1 from Poland and Russia. Many 1 Poles sometimes doubt that the AL 1 lies would insist on it for Poland's l sake but for Americas interference. l The Poles have been so many times l disappointed in ther hopes by the l European Powers that they really | have the fullest confidence and faith
 only in the justice and strength of l America. We believe that America | will not compromise on the Polish l problem, and will influence the Allies ] to stand by Poland. Let us now in l terpret the German conditions to a 1 free Poland:
 The frontiers will be fixed by the | German high command according to | military necessities.
 l It means a slicing in all directions l of important parts of Russian Po- ] land, as the districts of Dombrovo, i Lodz, Cholm, Lomza. Grodno, the re- l duction of Poland to a little more
 than the province of Warsaw. The Polish army will be restricted ] to 90,000.
 An impotent army sufficient to po- ! lice the country, but unable to de- | fend Poland against the attacks of
 a strong neighbor.
 1
 most favorable economic concessions l to the Central Powers on the prin- ] ciple of the most favored nation. That means economical, industrial
 and financial ens1avement of Poland 1 by Germany. a conscription of all Poland's future wealth by Prussia. ! Publication of German. Austrian, ! Hungarian, Bulgarian and Turkish l papers must be allowed.
 We can't understand it. There is 1 not an Austrian language. Hungar- ] ians, Bulgars and Turks are not liv- l ing in Poland. DO the satanic Teu- tons intend forcibly to colonize Po-
 land with such people?
 Tn any locality where there are ten l German children German school I will be opened
 l That means a German school in 1 every Polish village, because where l there are not three German families ! the Germans will always find three ] Jewish families willing to register as I Germans. It means a GermanizatiOn 1 of Poland by force and Poland to l pay the costs of it. Ninety eight per l cent of the Jews in Poland, the mil ] lions of them. would be supporters l of German schools and Germaniza- ! A fl1fnTR O ! Poles.
 The German conditions will be in- 1 corporated in the constitution, which ] cannot be modified without the ap- l proval Of the Central Powers. 1 That amounts practically to slavery. 1 No free and independent state could ] accept such conditions. Such @ Ger ! man Poland would be a repudiatiOn ! of all high aims of the Allies in this 1 war, a neeation of all human rights
 to which the Poles are entitled as
 well as the British, the French or ! others.
 We believe that America will never allow Germany to enslave the Poles
 in such an infamous and terrible ! way. We trust America. She is the l great hope of Poland and all the 1 Slavs.
 DIR. JULIUS HUBERT, ! New Britain. Conn.,. July Il. -v v~zr-~ -~Ryx~wxyr