FUTURE OF POLAND. THE DANZIG QUESTION. GERMAN ARROGANCE.

FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT. WARSAW, Friday Night.

When the news appeared in the Warsaw Press that the Allied Mission had been arrested in Danzig I cautiously added that it required confirmation. Now I am in possession of more details, and what actually happened is this. The representatives of old Prussia are making every endeavour to save Danzig for Germany. The inhabitants of Danzig in most cases are pleased with the decision of the Peace Conference, as their financial and commercial position will be improved. There is great prosperity for Danzig as a port of Poland. In regard to the officials, however, the case is different; their livelihood is threatened. For this reason the statistics of the population of the city were falsified. The German officials maintain that there are only 4,000 Poles in Danzig and 6,200 in the suburbs. It now appears, according to statistics compiled by the German clergy, that there are over 30,000 Poles at Danzig and 16,000 in the environs. The Germans, however, made every effort to hide the truth and to organise strong opposition. The arrival of the Allied Mission under Colonel Maréchal inflamed them the more especially as among the mission were certain Polish officers belonging to the army of General Haller under the command of Marshal Foch. The German authorities demanded that these officers should be kept from contact with the inhabitants of the town, but the answer was returned that as they were despatched from France, and were representatives of the Allied armies, the German request could not be granted. The Germans then posted their guard to watch the movements of the officers, who could not leave their hotel without Prussian soldiers. The mission had been given lodgings in a thirdrate hotel. It appears that the population was quite friendly to the Mission, and endeavoured to get into conversation with them, but the guards pushed the crowd aside. When Captain Lorriilard, feeling a little indisposed, called on Dr. Wierzbicki, guards were immediately posted outside the house. The Junkers endeavoured to create a state of anarchy. Last Sunday a public meeting was arranged to protest against Danzig being returned to Poland, German officials and soldiers stormed the premises of the Polish local papers, and a strenuous agitation was carried on. The German Burgomaster dismissed all the Poles employed by the county authorities; even a German woman, one Frau Bauer, was dismissed because she understood Polish.