The Cost of Maintaining the Police in Vilnia

By decree of the government, the Vilnia city self-government must pay 967 thousand zlotys this year for the maintenance of the police. This enormous sum (in Polish marks it will be 1740 billion 600 million!) is not at all commensurate with the wealth of the city, but is one of the manifestations of the "Kresy" policy, which tries to take as much money as possible from the unhappy "Kresy" for the benefit of the truly Polish lands. Thus the city of Łódź, the greatest Polish industrial center, pays half as much as Vilnia for the police (425 thousand zlotys), although it is several times richer than our long-suffering capital.