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Show POUND MAY WIN VVITHALLIED AID Prussian Domination Can Only Be Overcome With Outside Support. Encouragement Will Enable Country to Ward Off 4 Propaganda. By FLOYD MACGRIFF, Universal News Service Staff Correspondent. Correspon-dent. LONDON", March 15. Poland cannot stand up, flht and win against Germany, even though the allies should assist, a-s promised, with all materials needed for defense. But Poland can and will, If necessary, stand up and fight Prussia to a finish. The allies and. the United States are trying to prevent further conflict. Tho march of the allied force through Germany to Warsaw Is but one of the evidences evi-dences in that direction. Prussia is that-part of Germany whicii Intensely desires to dominate Poland, both commercially and politically. Southern South-ern Germany ia not so interested in the political phase of the matter. Germany as a whole, it is safe to assume, docs not desire immediate further bloodshed, and it Is hardly conceivable that a united Germany could be thrown against Poland, Po-land, even though the German political loaders were so foolish as to court further fur-ther allied penalties by launching such a move. Prussia, however, w ould not hesitate to war on Poland if she thoUKht that by such means she could bluff tho world "into granting concessions. Such concessions would be German domination domina-tion of Danzig and continued rule of districts dis-tricts of Kast Prussia containing Poles. No Jlilitary Organization. "With the exception of eucli Poles oJ have served in the Austrian, German, Russian and allied armies, that reawakened reawak-ened nation does not have trained soldiers sol-diers and no elaborate or effective military mili-tary organization. The present Infantry strength of the Polish army Is about S0,-000, S0,-000, and additional recruits are training.. train-ing.. When the Polish division that, has been fighting in France reaches home more backbone will be put into tho army organization, for those fighters are well j trained. But, disorganized by successive j Russian and German plundering, with j low food stores and factories out of gear, i Poland has plenty to do besides engaging in war. And if war cumo there would bo a tremendous need for organization of 1 supplies of all kinds, including munitions. muni-tions. Temperamentally, the Poles, who have for several generations refused to bow to even tho Turklike methods of subjugation subju-gation and extirpation employed by the j Germans, would not back away from o fight with the Prussians, with whom they I have many old scores to settle. Yet a conflict of any sort is not what that land, just coming into its own again, needs. Allies Must Be Firm. Unless the allies are firm, Prussia might seize tho least pretext for invading parts i of Poland districts that ethnically ara Polish and hold them by force. It wa in Kast Prussia that Mindenburg won his great victories over the Russian invaders. Prussia, which readily could mobilize several sev-eral hundred thousand men against Poland, Po-land, would not encounter serious difficulty diffi-culty in holding by force such Polish districts dis-tricts as she chose, and to dislodge her would entail serious allied effort. No doubt this was one of the factors which hastened the allied decision at Paris for an army of relief, Including-the Including-the Poles who had fought along with th French, to march through Germany. Suck a march is no less than a Hlunbo.'ird announcement an-nouncement to all Germany thnt "nuce-forrh "nuce-forrh the Poles aro allied friends and will receive full allied support. Fight tho Poles and you fight us!" Pudi a mc fage all Germany can understand. ' Gentian Colonies in Poland. To be perfectly fair with the Prussian, who imbibed his first taste uf subjugation subjuga-tion of notions by hog-tying the Poles, there are districts in Fast Prussia which contain almost as many Germans as Poles. The Germans were so placed by colonization. Unquestionably i will he rather difficult to disentangle Polish-German com muni ties so the rightful s I a I e shall hold sway in each case. Hut with tho world jury box at Paris packed in the Poles' favor the Germans still aro certain cer-tain to be accorded ample Justice. Prussia is not expected by military experts ex-perts here to start Inutilities against Poland, Po-land, but It would cause no surprise if the Germans attempt cd to garrison certain cer-tain districts of Fjj yt Prussia In which it might be disputable ;i s to which clement cle-ment was in tho majority. Pjpa t ch of Prussian forces eastward is interpreted more as a threat than an intention lo enter upon a new conflict-Allied conflict-Allied aid to Poland will enable th;jt count ry to must cr sufficient strength to combat the liolr-hrvihs, who already havo filtered Into Warsaw. Danzig and other cities as propagandist. |