INSURRECTION SPREADING. IN SILESIA.

Taihape Daily Times, 27 August 1919, Page 6

INSURRECTION SPREADING. IN SILESIA.

. GERMANS DEFEAT POLES. I "—" I v LONDON, Aug. 25. ‘ In Silesia -thz? -area of the insurroe- ‘ tion is rapidly widening. The insur-I gents are using captured arms, ammuni- ‘ ti-on, stores, and ci-oivbars. The Ger-A mans despatched armoured_ trains to: quell the rising and protect -the defence force. Two -thousand Poles, armed with only a hundred rifles,l fought the armoured train for hours. The-Germans brought up artillery and ‘ aeroplanes on the 17th‘. A brigade of ‘ marines arrived at Kaliowitz on «thej 18th, where heavy 2.1‘-fillery fire took} place. -The troop's ultimately overcame F the centres resistance_ Great bitterrness prevails. . REVOLT NOT BOLSHEVISTIC. LONDON,‘ Aug. 25. A correspondent of the Morning Post in Poland repudia-tes the German allegation of the Bolshevist character of the Silesi-an strike. He says the miners publicly declared their willingness to work provided the German -owners» opened mines which were closed] -allegedly because they were unprofit—. able. The miners’ also urged that‘ .Allied or Polish troops should be available to protect them from the excesses of German troops. General ‘Horsing, the German dictator, declared that the revolt was Bolshevistic, and -at-tempted ‘(:3 stamp it out ruthlessly by the perpetration of cruelvties and ztyrannies rem- ‘ iniscent of Belgium, apparently dellber- I ately fomenting rebellion to render a plebiscite impossible. He issued a pro- i clamation forbidding the right tot strike, and decreeing that anyone in possession of arms would be executed Without trial. Nine youths were shot summarily on the 21st as a repressive measure. The entire population of two mining villages were driven to Germany. General Horsing -threatened de ‘poi-tations of the male populations of several villages, and was proceeding to carry out the threats on a wholesale scale when Poles, led by .a priest, re‘ volted. Tho troops fired, and several were killed. '