SILESIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 August 1919, Page 5

SILESIA.

THE POSITION EXPLAINED. TYRANNICAL AND CRUEL GERMAN DICTATOR. By I'eleijraph.—Press A3sn.-Cop.vr'elit. Received Aug. 2a, i). 40 p.m. Paris, Aug. 25. The Supreme Council lias appointed a commission to superintend the production and distribution of coal in upper Silesia. The commission includes Polish and German members in addition to Allied delegates.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. Received Aug. 23, 8.55 p.m. Berlin, Aug. '25. The Pan-German Prussian Conservatives charge the Government with feebly handling German interests in regard to Upper ailesia and the Entente. The correspondent of the Morninj Post in Poland repudiates the German allegation of the Bolshevist character ol the tjilcsian strike. The miners publicly declared their willingness to work, provided the Germans owners opened the mines which were closed, allegedly, because they were unprofitable. The miners also urged that Allied or Polish troops should be available to protect them from excesses by the German troops. Heir Horsing, the German dictator, declared that the revolt was Bolshevistic, and attempted to stamp it out ruthlessly 'by the perpetration of cruelties and tyrannies reminiscent of Belgium, fipparently deliberately fomenting a rebellion in order to render a plebiscite impossible. Ho issued a proclamation forbidding the right to strike, and decreeing that anyone in possession of arms would bo executed without trial. Nine youths were shot summarily on the 21st as a repressive measure, and the entire population of two mining villages was driven to Germany. Horsing threatened deportations of the male populations of several villages, and was proceeding to carry out his threats on a wholesale scale when the Poles, led by a priest, revolted. The troops fired, and several were killed.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Association. REVOLT SPREADING. GERMANS SEND ARMORED TRAIN. Received Aug. 2-5, 8.55 p.m. London, Aug. 25. The area of insurrection is rapidly widening, and the insurgents arc using captured arms, ammunition, stores and crowbars. The Germans dispatched armored trains atd cars on the Krth to quell the rising and protect the defence force. Two thousand Poles, armed only with 100 rifles, fought the armored train for hours. The Germans brought up artillery and aeroplanes on the 17th, and a brigado of marines arrived at Kollowitz on the 18th, where there in heavy artillerying. Tho troops ultimately overcame the centres of resistance. Great bitterness prevailed.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. TO BE CONTROLLED BY GERMANY. Paris, Aug. 22. The Peace Council has informed all concerned that Germany is entitled to maintain order in Upper .Silesia until the ratification of the peace treaty. Polish troops cannot be allowed to enter the country unless requested by Germany.—Eeuter.