Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-03-24
GERMANS.
TO RESIST.
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AT DANz|G
Rejection of Corridor Plan to
Give Poland Access to
Sea Transmitted to
Marshal Foch. =

Copenhagen, March 23.-At a
meeting of the armistice commits
sion on Thursday, General Baron
Won Hammerstein transmitted a
note to General Nudant, Marshal
Foch's representative, according to
a Berlin dispatch, saying that the
German government could in no
case permit Polish troops to land
at Danzig and pass through the
country "as it would lead to an at
tempt to bloodily oppose the un-
doubted German majority in West
Prussia"
The note said that the govern
ment also refused to permit allied
and Polish officers to travel un-
restrictedly without supervision in
the territories east of the Vistula.
General Nudant, remarking that
the note categorically. rejected all
the proposals and demands of the
associated governments, said he
would transmit it to Marshal Foch.
Berlin newspapers protest i'll
strong terms against the reported
proposals of the allied supreme
council to give Poland a corridor
through Germany to the Baltic.
The Zeitung Am Mittag says it is
certain that an attempt to land Pol
ish troops at Danzig will be opposed
by military force.
German Proposal Refused.
London, March 25.-General Nu-
dant, representing Marshal Foch at
a meeting of the armistice commits
sion, announced that the entente. had
declined the German proposal that
Polish troops. be landed at Koenigs-
berg, Memel or Libau, instead of
Danzig, according to German
wireless dispatch received here.
General Nudant- said the interna-
tiohal commission at Warsaw had
been instructed to make all prepara-
tions for the landing of the troops
at Danzig. For this purpose, the
message said, the German govern,
mert was requested to grant the
members of the commission the nee
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Council Divided on Question.
Paris. March 23.-When the coun-
Gil of great powers met Saturday
it was in an atmosphere or consider
able apprehension over Poland,
which is the chief subject of dis
cussion. This, is not on account of
Poland itself but because of diff.
ferences which have arisen affecting
the fundamental question of nation
ality, to which y President Wilson
has given sis strong approval and
also his 18th point" which called
ior an independent Polish state with
access to the sea.
This last clause has introduced
an issue of which there is wide
divergence of views. A committee
under the chairmanship of Jules
Cambon, with Sir William Tyrell as
the British member and DR.. Robert
H. Lord as the American. has re-
ported the plan, giving Poland this
access to the sea by means of a
corridor" 60 miles wide, running
across East Prussia. But the effect
of this concession is to place about
100000 Germans within the new
Poland and to detach the eastern
most part of Prussia from Germany.
Premier Lloyd George has taken
the view that this denationalization
of large body of Germans will
cause such discomfort as would be
likely to bring on another war and
it is understood that President Will
son also is not entirely satisfied
with the proposal. M. Cambon's
committee, therefore, has been asked
to revise the plan and this revision
is now under discussion. The COM
mittee, nevertheless, is said to ad--
here to its original plan for a wide
corridor