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Show LUBOMIRSKI DENIES ! REDS PUN ATTACKj Call Rumors German Pro-i paganda SK4 TOIIK," Feb. r. "Rua"! '" am! ! Polan'l Br. at ppacts toilav. and I'olantl , xticta that nvi't Ruavia will live uim to the preliminary peace sinned at the I Uiica conference and the final draft of the treaty which will probably be "ic'ied before the middle of February.! I.i. mors nf war are baelras.' Tins statement by I'rince faimlr( T.nbomirskl, I'olish minister to iti.-j i'nitetl States, waa n'ado at the Wat-! 'lorf-Astoria hotel, whrn his opinion; was asked on the rumors of a new at, tack by th. Soviets onl'oiiiiL Jit i-oni inut d. "Poland Is at peace, and needs peace. !l-r reconstruction is otherwise inipos-sible. inipos-sible. I'olund intends to keep that peace, and will puffer no attacks i be launched sprain at Itussia from her territory, nor any other violations of h r neutrality to take place. "Nor do we expert the sovfts to attack at-tack either this winter or this spring-. Why rlioutd they? They know that they cantot expect military victory over the I'olish armies because the 1'oiish population stands to a man. not only ana in st ever nfculn falling under the rule of ny foreign power, but also Kainst fall under the control of a for-.un for-.un philosophy such as hoishevtcm in. The soviet b-aders are not stupid men. They ii ndersi and this. Hut t here n re other r asons why they woul.l not t-t;ie t-t;ie k, and those reasons are dictated by M-lf - inieresl. ; "Jn the first place. th Soviets hope to conclude nnd maintain a tr:iUe .rr-en). nt with Ireat Hrltnin. The surst wav to destroy such an sirre-r.i. sirre-r.i. rt would tie to begin an wtfressive war aaainst Poland. Aloreov-r. Kuma I'.oks t( Poland to her rominercinl fi;iteway to the West, the channel '. tlTOUph which the needefj supplies . will pour when the final peace is con- c'ud'd. It is in Poland thiit the Weat- : ern me re ha nt will meet the H tisaia n merchant and Warsaw will become the Tr.tdiiiK cef.ier for Husk, an-trade. "W li r do t hese v .1 r rumors come 1rm'! There I to be a ple-blsHte in ; ipper S;lesia. That Is the ttner. nt ( ; .'-rrr..n world polit ics e er the sarnej; - is the motive power. It is het a use, ; ff her hopes for a day f future --( ; 1 nvcrv of military power that h-rj ; propaKar.da to r-tain this district takes ; al v. n i a i;e of e ve ry ri r-ii msla nee and in v n t s them w h n t hey . do nitt ex 1st ." l.epor's of a serious condition exift- - in'sT n J'o'and, contained in a cable din- ', patch to the New York time from Oe-neva yesterdav. were contradicted by . I": A- Kweil. nss.tant secfftary of the : American Polish Chamlr of I'ommerce and Industry in the I'nited States, Inc., " 40 Wst Fortieth street. - ' Mr I-Twell demerit. -d aS "preprnter- -o'i" the re-port that the citv of War-!: saw Is without bread, that r.oO.auO able-J 1 )iolier rrr'-n are l.inx hebl under arms t and consumiiM? food which the civilian population ouvht to have; and that at lea-t 17'-.iih, polish soldiers are beinir ! held in reauinesa to march into I'pper 1 S 1 1 i jia sbouid the fort hrom ins; ple-lns- jcite th r fhow indications of sro'ntT :airit the annexation of this province to Poland. Mr. Kwell said thxt the "toker In the . quite e 'ident ly e rinn n ca hie" WH9 re- ( vealed In th1 atalie:nen', "Should the J Poles at'niii! a cojp d'etat-, as in the f fsse of Ytlna, there are no military I forces ftlerrran I in or nar Fpper 1 S'leyia to- hold them up" Urn said 1 hat the whole cable was but on of many f efforts of (rcriMn- oriajia lo discredit Poland before America. r |