UPPER SILESIA.
GERMAN SAVAGERY. DISGUSTING SPECTACLE. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, July 8. Remarkable evidence of German savagery in Upper Silesia is contained in a despatch from a correspondent at Oppeln. Three young girls were made the playthings of a mob in Beutlien. They were stripped stark naked and forced to mount pillar boxes and remain an hour as targets for filth and rubbish. Then their hair was cut off and they were branded on the face with the letters I and K (Inter-allierte Kommission) and hunted through the streets. The disgusting spectacle was witnessed by 5000 who, with the police, took no action. Hundreds of women took to flight. A later despatch describes the reign of blackguardism following the taking over of Oppeln by the German Schultzpolizei. The correspondent saw three women stripped and rushed along by a jeering mob who stormed a hotel and dragged out, stripped, and beat a girl in the presence of British and other Allied officers, who were powlerless, because they were instructed on no account to provoke a conflict with the population. The Polish Consul-General asked the Allied troops to take prompt measures to maintain order.
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Taranaki Daily News, 11 July 1922, Page 5
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192UPPER SILESIA. Taranaki Daily News, 11 July 1922, Page 5
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