Division OF SILESIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 October 1921, Page 5

Division OF SILESIA.

RESENTED BY GERMANS. BLOW TO HER INDUSTRY. PANIC' IN SILESIA. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Berlin, Oct. 15. The League’s decision is formally expected on Tuesday, when the Governments of Germany and Poland w:«! be requested to administer their respj/tive areas in Silesia. Considerable panic prevails among the German population in Silisia, with a run on the banks. Many Germans are migrating from the industrial area, and business men regard the partition as fateful for Germany’s economic future. Paris, Oct. 16. The recommendations of the League of Nations with regard to Silesia henceforth become the decisions of the Supreme Council, creating a fresh difficulty by the fact that, while Germany and Poland must accept the frontier laid down they are not compelled to accept the economic settlement. On this point Warsaw and Berlin will he aaked mutually to discuss an economic accord. This is likely to occupy time, meanwhile the Versailles Treaty prescribes that the Inter-Allied Commission in Silesia shall cease to function within a month of the frontier having being notified and that troops shall be withdrawn. Paris. Oct. 15. The newspapers applaud Mr. Balfour s work in connection with the Silesian problem, which has done much to prevent what previously had tnreatened to affect seriously the Polish-French relations.

There was something approaching a note of triumph when the political frontiers under the League’s scheme leaked out. but closer analysis is causing some French publicists to realise that the political sovereignty of Poland may yet be subordinated to the economic sovereignty of Germany, who, with her greater experience, resources and efficiency. will be practically master of the Polish area.