UPPER SILESIA.
GHASTLY OUTRAGES CONTINUE. OPPELN EVACUATED. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, July 10. The Oppeln correspondent of The Times states that ghastly outrages by Germans in Upper Silesia, against Polish girls continue. Mobs of roughs are raiding houses, stripping beating and dragging girls along by their hair, which is then cut off. A mob of about a .thousand Germans tried to break into a hotel to get a single Polish giri who was staying there. The Times correspondent telephoned to the Allied General, who ordered out armored cars. The order was heard cn the telephone and communicated to the mob, which began to disperse, but sporadic outrages continued all night. Five hundred extra police were brought from Breslau and 20 of the mob arrested. Similar atrocities are reported from Glewitz, Beuthen and Ratisbor. The Allied evacuation of Oppeln was carried out with the utmost caution. Traffic was stopped and the blinds in windows that overlooked the street lowered. The people looked on silently. All Oppeln and German Upper Silesia are flying the forbidden red, white and black flag. Telegraphic advices later state that the town is quiet, but an uneasy feeling is in the air.
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Taranaki Daily News, 13 July 1922, Page 5
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195UPPER SILESIA. Taranaki Daily News, 13 July 1922, Page 5
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