Upper Silesia

Hokitika Guardian, 10 July 1922, Page 3

Upper Silesia

OUTRAGEOUS HAPPENINGS. AURTIIAI.IAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. (Received this day at 9.50 a.m.) LONDON, July 9. The remarkoble evidence, of German savagery in Upper Slesia Ls contained 'in a despatch from a correspondent at Oppeli. Three young girls, the plny.things of n mob in Ueuthen, were stripped stark naked and forced to mount pillar boxes, a.nd remain for hours as targets for filth and rubbish. Then their lutir was cut off. and they were branded on the face with the letters “I” and “C.” (Interallied Commission), and hunted through the streets. The disgusting spectacle was witnessed by five thousand, who with the police, took no action. Hundreds of women took part. A Later despatch describes the reign of blackguardism following the taking over of Oppeln by German Schultzpolizei. The correspondent saw three women stripped, and rushed along by a jeering mob. Another mob stormed an hotel and dragged out and stripped and heat ft girl, in the presence ol British Inter-Allied officers, who were powerless, because they were instructed on no account to provoke a conflict with the population. The Polish ConsulGeneral asked the Allied troops to take prompt measures to maintain order.