18 AUGUST 1917, Page 17

The Polish Review for July (Allen and Unwin, Is. net)

contains an interesting article on " Present Conditions in Poland," which shows that the Germans are accentuating their tactless brutality towards the Poles now that Poland and the new Russia are in a fair way to becoming reconciled. It seems that while the military Governor-General, General von Bender, is not unfriendly, his chief civil administrator, Herr von Kries, is applying the anti-Polish methods which be learned in Posen, so that nay pro-German sympathies which may have existed in Poland are being rapidly extinguished.