GERMAN OUTRAGES

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 10, 12 July 1922, Page 5

GERMAN OUTRAGES

AGAINST POLISH WOMEN SHOCKING EVENTS IN SILESIA ■ -.-.,/ ALLIED EVACUATION OP OPPELN (VMITIB Kill ASSOCIATIOIC—COPIM-HT.) (AUSTRALIAN - NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Recaived July 12, 10 a.m.) LONDON, 10th. July. The Oppefai correspondent of The Times states that the ghastly, outrages by Germans in Upper Silesia against. Polish girls continue. Mobs of roughs are raiding houses and dragging out their screaming victims, whom they strip, and beat, and drag along by the hair, which is then cut off. A mob of aboilt a thousand Germans tried to break into an hotel to get a single Polish girl, who was staying there. The Times correapond'ent telephoned to an Allied general, who ordered out aa-mouTed cars. The order was heard on the telephone, and communicated to the mob, which began to disperse; but sporadic outrages continued aill night. Fiv_ hundred extra police were brought from Breelau, ' and twenty of the mob were aurested. Similar atrocities are reported from j Gleiwitz, Beuthen, and Ratisbon. The Allied evacuation of Oppeln was carried out with the utmost caution. Traffic was stopped,' and the blinds of windows overlooking the street were lowered. Tlie people looked on silently. All over Oppeln and German Upper Silesia the .forbidden red, white, and black flag was flown. Telegraphic advicee later state that the town is quiet, -but there is an uneasy feeling in the air.