SILESIA TROUBLE

Hokitika Guardian, 27 May 1921, Page 2

SILESIA TROUBLE

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION

POLISH POSITION. PARIS, May ‘Jo

It is alleged that when the Poles re-occupied Grosstein they found that their wounded (whom they had been forced to leave behind when the Germans advanced) had all been killed. Ar. Briand requested Poland to close her frontier and to dissolve the Polish bamds. LONDON. May 25. The “Daily Telegraph’s” Berlin correspondent states:—President Ebert, in response to French demands, has issued an order applicable to the whole of the unoccupied area of Germany, making it an offence punishable by a fine up to 100,000 marks to form or to participate in forming any unauthorised military bodies. The correspondent says that inquiries in many quarters have convinced him that Premier Wirth is inspired by a sincere desire to win the world’s confidence and to avoid troubles or complications hindering Germany front settling down to wet 1 ': in order to pay her debts. Whether this new spirit will continue wll depend upon the Allies. If a new policy of honesty is systematically misrepresented as diabolical duplicity, the German Government may fall back as its predecessors did, into bluffs, concealments and evasions which caused mischief in the last two years. PEACE ORDT/R TN GERMANY. BERLIN, May 24. The c arrv out of Preident Ebert’s order against armed forces in Germany is being effected by the Saxon Government, which arrested several Bavarian hands, that were proceeding to Upper Silesia. The Bavarian Government has decided to also carry out the ultimatum by disbanding the Orgeseh and the Ein wohneren.