Warsaw, May 10.
"Lithuania's foreign policy has al-Ways been a policy of neutrality, but Lithuania is ready and determined to defend her independence to the last soldier of her army," General Stanislas Rasztikis, visiting Lithuanian Chief of Staff, asserted here today.
He visited the Rembertow Camp today and watched Polish military manœuvres. Upon his return here, he received newspapermen and expressed to them his admiration for the Polish army. He continued:
"I have found here full understanding for our policy and my conversations with Polish statesmen have convinced me of the sincerity and sympathy entertained in Poland towards Lithuania. am convinced that the normalization of our relations will be furthered and will amour in closer ce-operation and friendship in conformity. with traditions common to our two peoples, allied for many centuries."
General Rasztikis remained in Wars&w until this evening, when he departed to visit the new Polish industrial region, known as the C.O.P. re gion, where a large part of the country's national defence plants are situated.
From there he will return directly to Kaunas, only passing through Warsaw pud not stopping over.—Havas.
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