ORDER RESTORED IN SILESIA

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 282, 25 August 1919, Page 5

ORDER RESTORED IN SILESIA

GERMAN OFFICIAL STATEMENT COUNTER-MEASURES EFFECTIVE By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Rec. August 24, 5.5 p.m.) London, August 22. A German official message states that order has been complotely restored in Upper Silesia. A wireless message from Berlin denies that Germany instigated riots in Upper Silesia. Germany blames agents from Pofand, who have been disseminating anti-German propaganda in- support of I'olish annexationists' designs. The German counter-measures are now improving the situation, and intervention by the Entente Powers would not be justifiable. Squadrons of police aviators are being formed in Berlin with the main object of preventing the smuggling of capital from Germany.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. 80,000 GERMAN TROOPS ASSEMBLED. Copenhagen, August 21. It is reported that the Germans have assembled 80,000 troops to quell the insurrection in Upper Silesia—United Service.

COAL CRISIS IN SILESIA MR. HOOVER REPORTS GRAVE OUTLOOK. (Rec. August 24, 5.5 p.m.) Paris, August 23. Mr. Hoover (the American Food Controller) has returned from Silesia. Ha slates that Eastern Europe is sufficiently supplied with coal, and is able to eend supplies to relievo tho crisis in the West. It ha l ? been decided to send a mission to PoTand and Upper Silesia to investigate tho situation with a view to intensifying .production.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. Another mcsas-go states that Mr. Hoover advised the Peace Council that unless the widest autocratic powers were taken in dealing with the coal situation in Silesia nothing oould savo Europe from a severe economic crisis. He depioted alarming conditions throughout AustriaHungary, which were directly traceable to the coal scarcity. It affects the shortage of food and hospital requisites at Budapest, resulting in an appalling increase in tuberculosis and the prevatenco of inftinti'.e diseases. Paper clothing is being commonly used. There has been a general debacle in urban life owing to the coal and food, difficulties.—"The Times."