Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 199, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1917 — TO DIVIDE POLAND [ARTICLE]

TO DIVIDE POLAND

CHARLES TO GET NINE-TENTHS OF THAT COUNTRY AND BE KING. According to information received from Vienna the central powers have decided to carry out the partitions of Poland. Germany will annex such parts of Russian Poland as she needs “to rectify her strategic frontier, amounting to one-tenth of the territory. Austria will annex the remaining nine-tenths and Emperor Charles will promulgate a decree uniting Russian Poland with Galicia, and proclaiming the whole territory to be the united kingdom of Poland, with himself king. The new Hapsburg Poland will have its own parliament, but its foreign policy, army and finances, will be controlled by Austria. The immediate effect will be to make the Poles liable to military service in the Austrian army. According to a report from Cracow, Count Roniker, of Warsaw, representing a group of prominent Russian Poles, has presented to the German government a set of demands. These include abolition of the frontier line between the German and Austrian spheres of occupation in Russian Poland, cessation of requisitions in Poland, and the expenditure of 6,500,000,000 marks to repair the ravages of war.