There is an interesting despatch in the Times of last
Saturday on the subject of Russia's attitude to Germany over the recent troubles in Prussian Poland. It seems that although the question has been passed over with studied reticence in official circles, the Russian news. papers have shown marked unfriendliness to Germany. The Novoe Vremya, after lecturing the Germans for their "intolerant pride" and entire lack of moderation and friendlinesl in dealing with the foreign elements in their Empire, continues :—" Those peculiarities account for the failure in the work of denationalisation in the annexed Danish provinces, and of the Germa,nisation of Alsace. A successful Germanisation of Poland is not to be thought of." The Novosti is equally outspoken, stating that "Prussian policy in Poland is too violent and arbitrary." This, as the Times correspondent observes, sounds a little like the pot calling the kettle black, "but in any case it is interesting to hear what the pot has to say." The German Press, judging from the extracts quoted by the Times, practically endorses all that is said above "about the preponderance of the Poles in the "East Mark," while the Pan-Germans have appealed to the Chancellor to abolish parity of treatment for the Polish sub. jects of the Prussian Crown, and gradually to secure the transference. to Germans of all the landed property now in Polish hands. This, in turn, provokes a protest from the Kolnisehe Volkszeitung, roundly accusing the Pan-Germans of fomenting by their insolence and hypocrisy the general hatred with which the German Empire is regarded by other countries. Indulgence in the luxury of Anglophobia cannot be indefinitely enjoyed with entire impunity.
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