IN UPPER SILESIA

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 8, 10 July 1922, Page 7

IN UPPER SILESIA

SAVAGE TREATMENT OF WOMEN

UGLY PHASES OF TRANSFER

REIGN OF BLACKGUARDISM IN

OPPELIN.

(»NITJI> FRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPTKI4HT.)

1 {PUBLISHED IN I'HK HUES.) (Received July 10, 10 a.m.)

LONDON,^ Bth July.

Rema.rka.blfl evidence of German savagery in Upper Silesia is contained in a despatch from the Times correspondent at Oppelin. Three young girls were made playthings of a mob in Beuthen. They were stripped stark naked and forced to mount upon pillarboxes, and remain there an hour, as targets for filth and rubbish. Then their hair was cut off and they wero branded on the face with the "letters, " 1.X." (standing for Interallierte Kommission), and hunted through the streets. This disgusting spectacle was witnessed by five thousand people, who, with the police, took no action. Hundreds of women took flight later. The despatch describes a reign of blackguardism as following the taking over of Oppelin by the German Schultzpolizei. The correspondent saw three women stripped and rushed'along by a jeering mob. • Another mob stormed a hotel, and dragged out, stripped, and beat a girl in the presence of British and interallied officers, who were powerless, because they were instructed on no account to provoke conflict among the population. The Polish Consul-General asked the Allied troops to take prompt measures to maintain order.