New-York tribune., 1918-12-17
Poland Breaks
Off Relations
With Germany
reutons Accused of Acting
With BoIsheviki Contrary
70 New Nations Interests
Calls for Allied Aid
General Pilsudski, Military
Leader, Urges Entente
Help Overthrow Enemies

AMSTERDAM, Dec. 16.-Poland has
..vsred relations with Germany, &C
.nrdinr to telegram received in Ber-
in from Warsaw.
Poland, as reason for the rupture,
,.cuses the German authorities in oc-
,snied provinces of acting contrary
% Polish interests and working with
,bs Bolsheviki. At the request of the
pol;sh government, Governor General
ron Beseler and the entire staff of the
German mission will leave the terri
torv Of the Polish Republic.
WARSAW (via Vienna), Dec. Is
By The Associated Press) The gov
ernment of Poland should be recog-
nized BY all the Allied powers in order
10 deal properly with the situation in
Poland General Joseph Pilsudski, the
military head of the present govern
ment, told the correspondent to-day.
"The government is now in a period
ef transition" he said. "A permanent
government will be established after
,he January elections to the Diet.
Bolshevik Danger Imminent
Il am neither Socialist nor Boil
shevik, but q Democrat. l think the
polshevik danger is imminent in Poland
unless we are able to put Up a fence
against the Russian influence.
"Let me first say how happy I am
that there is united Poland. Our in
dependence is due entirely to the
Allies, otherwise it would always have
been a fiction. Now we may realize
cherished ideals Our present task is
10 keen peace and order while awaiting
the elections.
I'VE need an army" he said, "to
avoid the danger of civil war and to
guarantee the frontiers against Bolshe-
yk agents or the intiltration of Ger
nan troops, particularly those from the
army OF General Hoffman. These fac
tors constitute menace unless we
get help from the Allies in the form
Of arms We have some arms which
we're taken from the Germans when
they retired.
"There are several complaints against
General Hoffmar's army. The first is
that the Germans prevent our officers
and troops, even in civil dress, from
crossing the frontier and organizing
where against growing disorders.
are selling and giving arms to danger
oil mt 10 h.,t
the Germans have delivered the city of
Minsk to the Bolsheviki in. return for
10000 rubles. This has resulted in
much suffering for the Polish popula-
ton there and the burning of houses
and chateaus.
If the army of General Hoffman
breaks up there is danger that the
100000 men in it will drift over our
frontiers, robbing and causing dis
orders. The Germans are melting an
tagonlstic elements in Lithuania and
are creating trouble in Posen German
roland). Their troops of occupation
IN Poland are taking an offensive at
lltude toward the population, with the
result that | have been compelled to
send troops to various places.
III is necessary that our government
oe recognized by the Allies. At present
mere are certain difficulties. The Polish
committee IN Paris represents parties
noV ., IN accord with the others here, but
N 5rls internal matter is being arranged.
reasonably, desire a compromise.
Tried to Go to France
1t was my intention to go to France
wnen | was arrested by the Germans
IN July 1917. France is country
love. AT that time | foresaw that
nuSsla was sure to break up and that
austria would follow.
:, am a strong admirer of America.
II was my good fortune to visit there
m lsoo' although it was only for few
lays during a jump across the con-
General Pilsudski is opposed by
s0ne groups on the ground that he is
socialist, but he says he is a Demo-
.,at When only 19 years old he was
crested at Wilma, in Lithuania, his
pp;;s'nplace, and sent to Siberia, and
os persecution by the Russian gov
tp,I,ment has endeared him to many
not:,., Ves. his ancestors belonged to the
,.Sooillty, but his long association with
so sooSe who opposed Russia has caused
O"e prominent Poles to declare that
ment 'ie so'ei !"
Occupies Won Beseler Villa
m;I;eal ;uI;ehefal Pilsudski, while he is the
JllIilary al head of the government, signs
Sii al government DEGREES and is con-
rs1 reuered the civil head also. The cor
RIpo1dent saw him in the villa of
wbosa wbbneoefe' IN the outskirts of Warsaw,
Gno.o "sre n lives with his staff. He con-
ernas os lhe business of the Polish gov
marls ,arnshcd rooms occupied until a
(;enan (oa.n ago by the German Governor
0Sneral me Won Beseler.
ror1e, me folish leader is slightly built,
EnOus EeanO man, bent with i'll health, but
Gre are blue and his eyebrows are heavy
sol;.. Y1e month after he returned from
prisnIry confinement in German
raS r.,o0n' r. he was able to expel the Ger
'.sh Governor General