Warsaw, Apr. 23.
"I have not come to give advice to Poland, or to cause agitation I have come to say simply that France is here today and tomorrow, in peacetime as well as in moments of stress, whatever happens and whatever efforts are made to raise mi understanding between us This statement was made by M Anatole de Monzie, French Minister of Public Works, when he spoke at a banquet offered on the occasion of the inauguration of a new railway line built by a Franco-Polish firm.
Together with M. Juljusz Ulrych. Polish Minister of Communications, he took part in the opening cer monies of the line, which is a te minal section linking the Baltic regions to Silesia. The line is 500 kilometres long and was laid down in eight years. It connects with each other the coal and ore mining districts of Katowice to the port of Gdynia in running from south to north across the Western part of Poland. It permits the transportation of coal and minerals from Upper Silesia to the sea without passing through Danzig. It is owned by the Polish Government, but is under the management of the Franco-Polish Railway Company.
M. de Monzie and M. Ulrych, together with several French and Polish personalities, attended a regious service in the chapel of the Jasna Gora Convent where the famous Black Virgin painting is kepi.
A dinner was then served in the refectory of the Convent, where M. Ulzych made a brief address in which he emphasized traditional Franco-Polish economic collaboration, It was after him that M. de Monzi made his address.—Havas.
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