Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-04-05
Agree to Permit Polish
Troops to Return Home
Thru Port of Danzig.
FORCED TO COMPLY
WITH AGREEMENT
Terms Of Armisties Insisted Upon BY
Marshal Foeh and Portion Of Gen.
oral haIIsr's Army Fighting in
France Will Be Sent Thru Baltic
Others to Be Sent Thru German Ter
ritory by Different Routes.
by Havas Agency.1


telegraphed the allied governments
that the right of the allies to use Dan
zig as a port for the return to Poland
of the Polish troops in France had
been formally upheld in the confer
erce with the German representatives.
In addition to Danzig it was decided
TO use other means of transportation
Of the Polish troops proposed by the
German government, so that the ar
rivals of the troops might be acceler-
ated. the marshavs message added.
The use of the port of Danzig was
! rovided for in the armistice OF Nov.
IL last.
The result was made known
with tho giving out Of COM
munication received by the allied
governments from Spa, where
Marshal Foch, the allied COM
mander in chief, and his aides
have been in conference with Ger
man representatives. The COM
munieation reads:
"spa, April 4, 1o:30 p. MIN
allied and associated govern
ments the rights given by the
armistice convention signed Nov.11
to land Polish troops now in
France at Danzia. has been COM
pletely maintained!
"Furthermore to hasten the ar
rival Of these troops in Poland it
has been decided to make use of
other lines Of transport.
"These arrangements as a whole
are in entire agreement with the
views Of the allied and associa atsd
governmental
(sisned) "Foeh."
Forced to Comply.
The conference at Spa between Mar
shal Foch and Matthias Erzberger,
head of the German armistice commits
sion. resulted from the tentative re-
fusal Of the Germans to meet the de-
mand of the allied powers that the
three divisions of Polish troops in
France under General Haller be per-
mitted to go to Poland thru the
port Of Danzig. The Germans offered
other ports in East Prussia and Pom
erania for the use Of the Poles, and
during the negotiations Just concluded.
according to German advces on Fri
Gay, the Germans prosposed that Gem
eral Haller's forces be taken by the
land route from Lunevile, France.
across Germany to Poland.
The German attitude regarding the
proposed landing at DanZig had been
that the troops might clash with the
population, but Berlin dispatches or
AprA stated that the 60, ernment had
informed the party leaders that the
Polish troops might be landed in Dan
zig If the entente would furnish guar
antee for their good behavior.
The armistcie agreement Of Nov. II
provided that the allies should have
free access ITO the TERRITORIES evacuat-
ed by the Germans from the eastern
frontier, either thru Danzig or by tho
Eistula, in order to convoy supplies tc
the populations Of those territories anC
for the purpose OF maintaining order
From the outcome Of the Spa confer.
ence, as reported in today's dispatches
1t seems probable that the allied re.
representatives. insisted as a matter o
principle. and consistency that the Ger
mans keep their agreement regarding
the use OF Danzig and that at least Z
portion Of the Polish troops will be
sent into Poland thru that port, while
the others will go either thru other
ports specified or the land routes re-
Gently suggested.