FIRE OF REVOLT
BURNING IN SILESIA
WIDESPREAD OPPOSITION TO “POLISH SLAVERY.”
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.
(Received June 1, midnight.) LONDON, May 20.
A correspondent of the “Daily Chronicle” visited Silesia, where he found the fire of revolt burning among one and 11-half millions out of the population of two millionn.
Despite rain and cold, demonstrations were made against the proposal to giro the Silesian mines to Poland. It was pointed out that tho sentiments of 'the people overwhelmingly support this attitude. A German leader declared that the entire working class was preparing to defend its home and soil.
~ .4.itho.usaud,-.wat.h .upl)eld'.hands,,vsworo in unison: "We will remain free till death rather.than-enter-Palish slavery." The correspondent adds; “The peojdo are in deadly earnest. They will not submit to control by people of .a-lower culture. A Polish attempt at the occupation of Silesia will precipitate - a- bitter, bloody war.”
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10295, 2 June 1919, Page 5
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148FIRE OF REVOLT BURNING IN SILESIA New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10295, 2 June 1919, Page 5
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