New Britain herald., 1919-12-27

, troops were suffering from lack of money 1 There were 9,O0O of them, paid at the rate of five lire day. By Nolcmbel l there were due nearly 2G00,030 lire. Con 1 trlbutions from Italy were meagre ant the heavy taxes imposed to support the
 army were not reliShed by tho business men of Fiume. Possibly to revive the
 dropping spirits of his soldiers. D. An nunzlo on November l. made a sortie il
 a torpedo boat and landed at Zara, or 1 the Dalma tian coast. announcing it's oc-
 cupation. Admiral Milo with the crews ] or his war ships sWore allegiance to the poet, who returned to Plume the neS, Iday. Later D'Annunzio announced that | he would make no more raids and as l soon as Plume was recognized as Italian
 he would fly to America across the Pacific Poland.
 1 Next 10 Italy developments in the East were the most important of the year l Poland had been already recognized as a sovereign state and was represented in 1 the peace conference by Roman Dmowski i ] President of the Polish National Commit l tee, and Premier Ignace Paderewski the well known pianist. who had devoted his i fortune and his life to his countrys cause in the last years of the war. The stability of the new republic was threat ened, however by the Germans on the west, Nuo were IeluCLdfL 10 1SlnQUlS0 1 Polish territory they had been ordered l and by the Bolsheviki on the east, who l had no intention of letting the Poles SC cede. despite their praise of self deterni- lnation.
 Through Danzig American commis- sion reached Poland after being atta cked by Germans in Posep. the result being a battle in the city ill which Polish guards defeated the Germans. The Bolshcviki at |tacked Wilma and captured it on January l3, massacred the in1a bitants and moved on toward Warsaw. occupying Lida. An Ia attempt was made to assassnate Padcrew- tskl in Warsaw on January 12 and he was slightly wounded, but recovered and on u January IS formed a coalition Ca abinet in agreement with General Pilsud.ki. The UkrainianS in Eastern Galicia attacke q Przemysl, killing 2.ooO persons in q bon- lbardment which ended on January 1a The Czechosloval1s, too, attacked the iPoles in Austrian Slesia and occupied the mining region of Marvin. The peace con- ference sent an allied commission to lSllesia to settle the dispute between Czechs and Poles over the Teschen coal fields The former captured Oderberg on Janu-
 ary 26. Elections were l,eld in Poland for members of a Constituent Assembly, which
 met in Warsaw on February Q. Tie inter-
 allied mission reached Warsaw on F'ebru-
 ary l2 and induced 8 brief truce between Czechs and Poles. which the former broke
  between CracoW and Leu berg.
 Meanwhile the peace conference had determ1ned upon giving Poland a corridor through German territory as an exit to the Baltic Sea. Danzig itself would rema in
 a free city. The corridor included on the
 west small part of Pomerania inhabite by Poles; on the cast it left to Germany Elbing and Osterode. This cut eff part Of East Prussia from the rest of Ger many, Whereat there was 8 great howl |trom the Germans. It was suggested that German territory east of the corridor
 should be deullitarzed and that a plebis-
 cite should be taken in East Prussia
 around the Mazurian lakes where Poles
 predorllnate. to decide whether the terri |tory should go to Poland.
 Germany objected so strenuously to the
 Danzig arrangement that Marshal Foch had to so to Spa to convince Mathias Erzberger, the German envoy. that it
 would be best for Germany not to resist
 He won his point. but agreed that General
 Haller's Polish troops, who had been lighting on the French front. should re-
 turn through Germany to Poland instead of going by way Of Danzig. The Poles were much disappointed a not being awarded possession of Danzig, but were assured that it would serve their con-
 mercial purposes as a free city just IS well. It was occupied by British and
 American marines on May 2. Early In March the Poles captured Pinsk from the Bolsheviki. An attempted BolsheVist up- rising on April was put down and number of the conspirators were shot. AS many of them were Jews. this gave rise to the stories of anti-Jewish pogroms in Poland. repeated with much exaggeration in this country and in England in order to lnjure the Polish cause. Tho United States was the frs. to recognize Poland. on January 29. France followed on teb- ruary "A. Italy on March 13 and Belgium on March 1s. An alliance between Poland land the Entente was ratified on March zs.
 In Gallcia the Poles drove the Okrain-
 ians from the vicinity Of Lemberg. In
 the north they retook Wilma from the Bol- shevlkI; on May 19 gained the railway line to L1da and on July had captured
 Mlnsk Poland on July 31 ratified the peace treaty with Germany, in which the new boundaries were recognized. Never theless. there were continued clashes oe- tween Germans and Poles in Upper Silesia.
 Soviet Russia.
 More disturbing to the peace of the world than German treachery or allied