Germany and Austria have appointed a Regency Council of three
members for the Russian Kingdom of Poland. This Council is to summon a State Council and appoint a Cabinet. Its acts are, how- ever, to be subject to the approval of the German Governor-General, who also retains power to issue decrees on his own account. In effect, the appointment of these enemy nominees will not change the situation. The reconstitution of the Kingdom of Poland most involve the restoration of Posen and Dantzig by Prussia and of Galicia by Austria, and this will come only when the enemy has been compelled to acknowledge defeat. Meanwhile Germany and Austria are trying to win the favour of the Poles ea that they may raise a Polish army to fight for them. The Poles show no sign of their willingness to do so, now that their fears of reconquest by Russia ere for ever removed, and part of the Polish Legion has mutinied and been disbanded.
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