GERMANY UPSET.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 October 1921, Page 5

GERMANY UPSET.

DIVISION OF SILESIA. ANGER AT DECISIONS. GOOD FEELING LOST. By Telecra ph .—Press Assn.—Copyrictt London, Oct. 11. The Doily Chronicle’s Berlin correspondent reports that there is great uneasiness in the Wilhelmstrasse regarding Upper Silesia, and a general feeling prevails that the improvement between Germany and her neighbors is about to be nullified. Herr Wirth (the Chancellor) returned unexpectedly to Berlin and held a midnight meeting of Cabinet regarding Silesia, while another meeting took place at eleven in the morning and a third in the evening. If Germany loses more than the Pless and Rybnik districts the result will be fatal to the Wirth Administration, and it will resign. Amicable relations between Germany and the rest of Europe will then be impossible for generations. Herr von St. Hamer (German Ambassador to Britain) has been instructed to inform Britain that serious results will follow the partition of •he industrial region. GERMANY ANNOYED. AN UNPOPULAR DECISION. FURY OF PRESS AND PUBLIC. Received Oct. 13. 5.5 p.m. Berlin, Oct. 12. The Cabinet held a sitting lasting for rveral hours and received reports from the Ambassadors, all being of the same tenor—that they were unable to exercise any influence in obtaining a favorable decision for Germany over Silesia. Ail added that there was little prospect of the Supreme Council reversing it* decision. The evening papers appeared with headings such as “The Injustice of Geneva.” Under the influence of this news the mark fell fifty points, and the fury of the Press and the public is in-ne-w-ri liable. especially as many believed the threat that the Wirth Ministry would resign would have an effect on England and France.— Cable Assn. DIVISION OF SILESIA. DECISIONS OF THE LEAGUE. Received Oct. 13. 5.5 p.m. Paris, Oct. 12. The Council of the League of Nations ha? decided that Poland snail receive the southern districts of Pless and the greater part of Rybnik. Germany retain- the western districts of Clemitz ami Zabrzc and the town of Beuthen. Poland receives Konigshutte and the outskirts of Beuthen and the town and outskirts of Kartowitz; also the eastern portion of the districts of Tamo witz and Lublinitz, the western portion going to Germany, which retains the other northern and western and the central districts.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.