SILESIAN PARTITION.
MOURNING IN GERMANY. TALK OP REVENGE. (Kccelved _ ii.iv.> LONDON, June 18. The "Daily Chronicle's" Berlin correspondent says that flags were flown at half-mast over the whole countryside as a sign of mourning for the handing over to the Poles of part of Upper Silesia. Instead of lessons in the schools the children were instructed regarding the loss of part of the Fatherland. Bells tolled for half an hour everywhere, and on Sunday services of mourning were held in the Prussian churches.
The newspapers are talking of revenge. The "Deutsche Zcitung" says: 'We will not fly the flag at half-mast, but will keep our old black, white and red ready for a. day when, by our own might, the whole of Upper Silesia will again become part of Prussia. We believe firmly that a day of reckoning is coming for Upper Silesia."—(A. and X.7,. Cable.l
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Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 143, 19 June 1922, Page 7
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