SILESIA TROUBLE

Hokitika Guardian, 9 May 1921, Page 2

SILESIA TROUBLE

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION

SITUATION IN SILESIA,

LONDON, May 7

British official circles regard the situation in Silesia as most serious. It has, all the elements of a highly organised rising conducted by military experts. The insurgents are very num erous and well equipped.

GERMAN army ready

BERLIN, May 7,

The Chancellor, in the Reichstag, referring to Silesia, said that Von Sheet had been ordered to make the German Army ready for all eventualities. This brought loud cheers from the Junkers and a violent protest from the Communists.

POLISH INSURGENTS.

(Received This Day at 8 a.m.) BERLIN, May 7. »

Korfantz commands one hundred thousand men against fifteen thousand Allies’ troops. The insurgents are well equipped, including machine guns and artillery captured from the Italians.

THE SILESIAN DICTATOR

BERLIN, May 6

Korfantz, the Silesian Dictator, in a proclamation forbids violence or illtreatment of any person, regardless of his speech, faith, or race. He prescribes the death penalty to any one guilty of theft or the use of weapons. The Italian troops lost thirty killed in fruitless attempts to suppress the rising. It is estimated that fifty thousand insurgents are well armed and disciplined.

THE REPARATIONS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.

AMERICA AND ALLIES;

WASHINGTON, May 6. ? The United States has decided to accept the Allied invitation to the Allied Conference at Paris, as cabled on the sth inst.

U.S. AND ALLIED COUNCIL.

WASHINGTON, May 7. A United States Note was handed to Sir A. Geddes to-night, accepting the invitation to take part in the Allied" Conference. If says Mr George Harvey United States Ambassador to Britain will join in the deliberations of the Sail re me Council, while United States Ambassador, Wallace, at Paris, and Mr [{. \y. Boyden (United States Conunis- > sioner at Paris) will be unofficial observers at the Ambassador’s Council and the Reparation Commission respective-

} The United States Cabinet discussed the invitation all day. It was felt that United States interests could not be pi'operly protected and the light of preseant world relationship unless the Uniteda States participated in an unofficial character.

The Note to the Allies points out the United States will not be bound by any course of action taken, but her ambassadors will act chiefly in the capacity of observers. A Note to Britain says: '“The Government of United States has received from Sir Eric Geddes a courteous communication, in which you said that with the unanimous concurernce of the Powers represented at London, you enquire whether this Government is disposed to be represented at future conferences. The Government of the United States, while maintaining its traditional policy of abstinence from participation in matters of distinctly' European 00000™, is deeply interested in the proper economic adjustment and just settlement of matters of worldwide importance, and desires helpfully to co-operate s in the deliberations in these questions.”

UNITED STATES AND DISARMA-

WASHINGTON, May 7,

Mr George Harvey (United States Ambassador to Britain), will broach the subject of disarmamenta when he takes, his place at the deliberations of the* Supreme Ciuncila. President Harding, however, does not intend to take aqy further disarmament proposals while awaiting the House and Senate discussion's. He does not want Congress to act while world affairs are in such an uncertain state, but prefers to wait for a more opportune time. NEW GERMAN CABINET. .BERLIN, May 7. Stresman has declined to form a Cabinet. Herr Schwandiger, former Governor of Alsace-Lorraine, has agreed to form a ministry, from which it is reported Socialists will be excluded. The Daily Chronicle’s Berlin correspondent points out the industrial magnates’ organs are directing the strongest complaints, not against the financial, but the disarmament and war criminal clauses of the Allies ultimatum.