Warsaw, Jan, 18, The publication of the text of the Polish note to the League of Nations on the subject of the German complaints regarding the treatment of the German minority during the Polish general elections, adds nothing to what has already been known about the Polish viewpoint but the Germans in Toland are much concerned about a series of: measures which, they suspect, are intended to sabotage any eventual action on the part of the League as well as of the other national minorities which all suffered alike, Thus the verdict which was given has not yet been ratified and has therefore not yet the force of definite judgment. A largo number of similar prosecutions of Polish officials have been announced by: the Ministry of Justice but proceedings are' being taken with exasperating slowness. Germans here fear that the purpose of this entire. manquvre is merely to enable the Polish delegate at Geneva to tell the League at Nations Council. "You need not worry about this affair for you can see that we have already started cleaning up." The League might in view of Poland's powerful friend in the Council content itself with this declaration whereafter the much-heralded prosecution would undoubtedly mostly be dropped. It is believed that the Polish delegate at Geneva will thus try to shift the basis of discussion away from the concrete cases of national minoriion of the general German policy in the East.
In this connection, it is interest ing to observe the loud clamour set up by the press here and in the neighbouring Raltic states all of a sudden yesterday and: o-lay over the fact that a number of cases containing machinery for setting up an ammonia factory in Russia had been seen in transit betwoon Germany and Soviet Russia, This ts being taken as the text for fearsome homilies about sinister German designs to help the Soviet Union organize the manufacture of poison gas on a large scale.
Businessmen closely connected with firms supplying material of this sort however point out that the main purpose of ammonia production all the world over chemical manure of which especially the Soviet Union stands in bad need. Besides itis pointed out that had it, been thought. advisable to prevent to. public. from learning anything about this special sort of machinery being supplied to Ru this could easily have, been done, this alone proving that, there was Keeping the matter Ocean: Kuo Min,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.