IN SILESIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 May 1921, Page 5

IN SILESIA.

FEAR OF CIVIL WAR. SITUATION BECOMING WORSE. THREAT OF ANARCHY. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.-—Copyright. Received May 10, 7.5 p.m. London, May 9. The situation in Silesia is hourly becoming worse and only, a miracle can save the country from bloody civil war, with the probable added horror of anarchy among the insurgents, owing to the appearance of a number of rivals to Kgrfantz. Meanwhile the rebel dictator, accompanied by the faithful Nenchman and troop commander Doliva, formerly a German cavalry officer, has his headquarters at a small inn in a village near the Polish frontier. He boasted to an interviewer that he would soon bring Poland to heel.

The Silesiah railways have resumed running and the mines start to-morrow. Korfantz seems unaware that he is sitting on a powder mine with the time fuse ablaze. —Times Service. GERMANS ARMING. A COUNTER-INSURRECTION Received May 10, 10.10 p.m. London, May 10. The “Daily Express correspondent at Oppeln states armed German civilians number eighteen thousand and are increasing every hour. Something like a counter-insurrection by the whole German population is beginning. Fighting is taking place eight miles away. The French are apparently unwilling to take efficient measures to restore order. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. BRITAIN TAKES ACTION. SETTLEMENT PROPOSALS. Received May 10, 10 p.m. London, May 9. In the House of Commons, Mr. Cecil Harmsworth (Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs) stated that the Polish insurgents had overrun the whole of the Plebiscite area to the river Oder. The Allies, he added, were considering proposals for a settlement, and steps were being taken to strengthen the police. The Polish Government had been requested to close the frontier and prohibit a-seistance or encouragement of the insurgents. Mr. Lloyd George said it was unfortunate that the incident should have arisen when the German Government was making up its mind on the disarmament question. Britain was doing its utmost to bring pressure to bear on the Polish Government. —Reuter Service.