19 FEBRUARY 1927, Page 2

• * • * The attempts to negotiate the German-Polish

Trade Treaty have, temporarily at all events, been abandoned. The two countries have not been able to agree abot■t the rights of domicile and expulsion and so, as the result of the heat generated upon this superfluous subject, both countries are to go without their Trade Treaty until they can reach a better mood. The main trouble is, of course, in Upper Silesia, and the main blame seems to us to belong to the Poles. 1The Poles, in their-part of Upper Silesia, arc turning out skilled German engineers, .factory managers, and so forth; who refuse to become polish citizens. The Germans, in their part of Upper Silesia, naturally retort.. There is . nothing to be said . except that nothing will be done until common sense again reign's. *- *