The end of the occupation
Since the end of July; 14 September [1918 r.] Austria proposed a separate room to the Allies; 26 [of that month] They asked for a Bulgarian room, At the end of October, the Austrian Front in Italy on Piava, from 5 In October, two emperors and Sultan negotiated for the surrender, And on the basis of 14 Wilson points. As the occupiers reacted to these news, and how tamed their victims? The Legionnaire trial in Marmaros-Sziget has just ended in Hungary. Criminal proceedings discontinued due to merits, which the Polish nation laid for the state in this war. In Berlin, the new Chancellor Maksymilian Prince Baden announced 5 October creation of national representative offices in Poland and in the Baltic countries, which, however, did not indicate that the extermination policy was abandoned in the former partition, nor about the resignation from pressure to the east. They were tighter and hotter in champagne and Belgium, Ludendorff insisted on the expansion on the Baltic Sea and plans to "improve" the border with the Congress. Within 1918 r. The Germans confirmed on both banks […] Finnish bay, Like it protecting independent Finland against the Bolshevik Lagoon.
Beseler saw the impossibility of these plans, But to pass on to further fields of administration to Poles, he was not very eager. Also the Regency Council, having a January visit and the June declaration and fatal results of the work in the Russian, She did what she could, To prevent the power of these, who will make her bill for errors. Having read the news about the peaceful initiative of Prince Maks and his parliamentary announcement, she announced suddenly 7 October message to the Polish nation, that it is the highest authority in the Polish state, which will be independent, united, with access to the Baltic Sea. Hardly anyone recognized this strange claim of German appointments, what they have separated from the aspirations of the widest layers of the nation.
The same month, October showed the world how spontaneous looks like, without a foreign invasion, crushing of the great power. Ahead of the emperor's manifesto on the transformation of Austria into a federation (16 X), Parties in Cieszyn Silesia have announced citizens of free Poland, 27 A liquidation commission was created in Krakow from the People's Party, national and Polish democrats, and socialists, 31 this month Skarbek, Stanisław Rymar and Brigadier Roja, with the help of legionnaires, liquidated the Austrian governments there. C.K collapsed within a few days. authorities in Galicia and in the occupied congress, And the political role of Krakow conservatives ended with them. Activists both in Warsaw, as in Krakow, they thought, that they must play their roles to the end. The first listened with respect to German temptations about Vilnius (which "Taryba" was eagerly disturbed), Others attempted to undermine the forming liquidation commission until the last, as if Vienna was waiting for this Polish rebellion, To convey Eastern Galicia – Rusinom.