The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-03-18
GERMANY READY
TO OCCUPY MEMEL
(Cont;nuad from mage one)

last Friday intensified long drawn
pickering between the countries
when $4,000 persons last night
marched to the home OF Marshal
Edward Dydz-Smigly, PolandS
dictator. shouting:
Lead us to Kovno" Capital
of Lithuania, called ".Qaunas" by
the Lithuanians.)
Dryz-Smigly permitted h e
crowd to demonstrate and produc-
ed a spontaneous riot of enthu-
SiaSm when he replied:
81 shall not disappoint your
confidence"
1--WE will march to Kovno and
Mcneil" the Poles had shouted,
who a half hour before had been
stirred to high pitch Of anger by
a speech by General Jan! Gorecki.
head of the Polish war veterans
association.
His speech bitterly condemned
Lithuania at moment when the
Polish government was understood
to have adopted a formula for
easing tension over the Polish
Lithuanian border dispute after
both Russia and Great Britain had
stepped into the picture.
The dispute, threatening actual
war, arose from the killing of a
Polish frontier gnard on March IL.
p0PtJl ACE DEMANDS
ABOLITION OF BORDER
1--WE demand abolition of the
frontier between Lithuania and
Polandw said banners carried by
the $4,000 demonstrators.
The crowd sent deputation to
Dydz-Smigley, who is inspector
general of the army and actually
the real ruler of Poland, who told
them:
81 am deeply moved by the fact
that all hearts are assembled
around me. l shall not disappoint
Your confidence.
NO EFFORT MADE TO
CALM PUBLIC ANGER
The gravity of the situation was
shown in the fact that neither
Dydz-Smigly nor the government
sought to calm the anger of the
crowds.
The governments formula for
a settlement was understood to in
clude:
l. Immediate resumption OF
diplomatic relations with Kovno,
the Lithuanian capital.
.. Immediate resumption of
railway, postal AMI telephone
communications, interrupted by
recent aggravations between the
two countries.
>. Alteration of the Lithuanian
constitution establishing Wilma,
situated near the Polish border
and long a subject of controversy,
as the nations capital. Wilma now
is occupied by the Poles.
POLISH MINORITY
ONE ELEMENT
4. Reciprocal arrangements con-
corning treatment Of national min
iorities. with guarantees Of the
development of the cultural and
national life of 100000 Poles in
Lithuania. . -.
5. commencement of negotia-
tions for a customs and commerce
agreement.
s. Satisfaction for the recent
Polish frontier incident, in which
a Polish soldier was killed.
The crisis developed to a point
at which practically all the gov
ernments of Europe FASTENED to
consult with the Polish govern
ment, fearing a possible means for
a serious structure in relations be-
tween Russia and Germany.
In yesterdays diplomatic con-
versations between Poland and
Britain, Russia, France, Italy and
Germany, the government was re-
ported by well-informed sources
to have informed the various dip
lomatic representatives that so far
all normal mcthodS' to restore
peace have failed and that there.
fore ''more energetic measures
were necessary.
Fuehrer Adolf Hitler. flushed
with his "bloodless" victory over
Austria, repeatedly was more IN
terested in the developments than
any other European powers.
GERMAN MINORITY HAS
HIT FIR INVOLVED
Hitler's interest was more close