The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-03-21
PEACE JITTERY BUT
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alton of Lithuania" and protest
ing against Saturdays peaceful
settlement of Poland's 48-hour ul-
+ timatum to KoXno.
Police, forced to call out fire
brigades to break up the demon
strators as they marched on the
foreign office, arrested 435 per,
sons. Most Of them were radical
/ nationalists.
The "war rehearsal" along the
so-called dead frontier" that
vii lbe rcopened as result OF
Lithuania'S surrender to PolandS
ultinatum, was staged near Vii
ma by troops, motorized cavalry,
squadrons of tanks and so mill
tary planes.
! Nearly 100000 troops remain
ed along the border today.
| Stress was laid upon Poland'S
motorized units that could reach
the Lithuanian capital of Kovno
(Kaunas) in two and a half
hours.
The Polish fleet was ordered to
steam up the Baltic sea for nor
NAL maenuvers" close to the Lith-
/ uanian coast.
Both Poles and Lithuanians ad-
mitted last night, after the first
burst of excitement of Lithuan-
las capitulation, that a peaceful
settlement was not yet certain.
/ Polish troops will remain along
the border until after the March
81 deadline fixed for resumption
of normal diplomatic relations.
Some responsible Lithuanians
said there could be no lasting
settlement until Wilma - seized
by Poland in 1920 - was re-
stored.
Polish nationalists contended
that the agreement of Saturday
was wholly unsatisfactory" be-
cause Wilma was not formally rec
lognized as q Polish city.
The troublesome problems that
remained included:
/. Guarantees affecting 20O,-
600 Poles in Lithuania, who alleg-
eddy have been subjected to OPP
preston and brutality.
2. The status of Wilma.
3. A Polish outlet to the north
eastern Baltic.
a. Poland's objections to Lith-
uania's friendship with Russia.
S. "Normalizing" the frontier
The latter point - including
restoration of railroad, telegraph,
telephone and postal services -
was expected to be solved with
comparative ease. Only five miles
of railroad track must be laid to
connect Warsaw and Kovno by
! the roundabout way OF wilma.
Postal relations probably will be
restored via Koenigsburg.
J Polish officials said they still
were prepared to exert pres
sure"-meaning probably a mill
tay invasion-if Lithuania show
ed any reluctance in putting the
negotiations through speedy
conclusion.
They anticipated no trouble,
however, in view of the armed
fol ce being retained along the
border.
These statements led some for
eian observers to believe that Po-
lard, flush with the success of
hel warlikc .ultimatum, might lay
down terms too severe for the
KWno government to accept.
The rightist newspaper Dzien-
nil Narodoky complained bitterly
tocay that Poland obtained vir-
tu;lly nothing by Lithuania's
ca,itulation and that the Warsaw
government should have proceed
ed to force a Polish-Lithuanian
unon.
his demand was echoed by the
extremists who rioted in the
STREETS Sunday night, demanding
military mobilization and a march
on Kovno. The settlement Of the
187ear-old dispute, the demon
SIldOIS SnOuleu, was Illuminating
to Poland rather than to Lithu-
anti.
Most of the demonstrators were
angry because the settlement did
not definitely admit Poland's SOW
eregn right to Wilma, Lithuania's
former capital that was seized by
the Polish freebooter, Gen. Lu-
cier Zeligowski, in 1920.
Ithaania's gloom was deepen
ed " a realization in Kovno that
the developments of the last three
day have completely upset the
foreign nolicies pursued by Lith-
uana for nearly 20 years.
Sviet Russia, it was reported,
did not even answer Lithuania's
urgnt inquiry as to whether the
Russians would support her
against a Polish invasion and 9TH
err laltic states, including Eston-
ia and Latvia, instead of present
ing common front urged kovno |,
to surrender to the Polish ultima
tum without conditions.