“Restore order in the Kresy!”

Under this heading "Gazeta Poranna" writes:

In recent times public opinion has been alarmed by a whole series of bandit attacks that have taken place in the eastern voivodeships of the Republic, especially in the Baranavichy and Nyasvizh counties and the border counties of Volhynia.

The bands, often very numerous, and always very well armed and organized, attacked mostly manor estates, plundering them utterly, above all carrying off the livestock and farm equipment. In the last 2-3 weeks, in the Baranavichy county alone, the bandits led away more than 140 of the best horses, thus halting the work of a whole series of farms. These bands set fire to manors and forests, poison cattle, and so on, which clearly shows that their aim is not robbery alone, but also a strong striving to provoke anarchy in the eastern voivodeships, or at least in their border counties.

And further:

The whole of this action, being of an outstandingly political character, demoralizes the local Belarusian and Ukrainian population, which is ceasing to believe in the durability of the union of these lands with Poland.

In conclusion "Gaz. Por." says:

If the central authority does not resolve on a truly strong policy in liquidating this assault on the integrity of the Republic, the belonging of the eastern lands to Poland may soon be put in question.

The Minister of the Interior who resolves to introduce "stan wyjątkowy" (emergency protection) in the eastern borderlands and to put relations there in order may hope not only for the support of all Polish society, but also for the gratitude of the vast majority of the local Belarusian and Ukrainian population.

Well, it is hard to agree with this last claim: emergency protection is such a dreadful thing, above all precisely for the peaceful Belarusian and Ukrainian population, that for such "arranging" of relations no gratitude can be expected from Belarusians and Ukrainians!