UPPER SILESIA

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 9 May 1921, Page 7

UPPER SILESIA

CHAOS AND TURMOIL

SUCCESS OF INSURGENTS

ALLIES' DECISION NOT TO BE

CHANGED

s "3Y CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYBIGHT (Times.) (Received May 9, 12.25 p.m.) LONDON, May 8. The Times' Sosnowitcz correspondent pictures a state of - chaos and turmoil in Silesia. The Allies' authority, back-v-ed by 10,000 soldiers, tanks, and artillery, is set at nought by the insurgents, and our distinguished colonels have been forced to parley with beardless pitboys, Korfantry's commanders, who are ruthlessly expelling the Allies from the country. The insurgent army is a, ragged band, including many women, but mostly boys. Fifty thousand are armed, and the discipline is excellent.The older men are acting as police. The patrol system is in operation throughout the country. As a result there is no license or disorder, except by yputhful exuberants, who fire rifles and throw bombs\jn exultation at tfie •success of their national cause. Korfantry controls the whole movement. . His principal lieutenant is a young German t>fficer. He has. brought industry and the railways to a standstill, closed shops, stripped the publication of newspapers, and- refuses y to allow an : ounce of coal to be raised until the socalled Korfantry line is recognised. He Is ready to sit tight, backed by' Poland public opinion, to defy the world. The French beat off the*insurgents' attacks at Kattowitz with heavy losses/ but Korfantry .holds undisputed sway of the surrounding country. The tanks did grim execution among the Poles, but they do not seem to mind. News from "Warsaw indicates that - the Government has lost control of the country. \ (Reuter.) PARIS, May 8. A conference of Ambassadors has proclaimed that the recourse to force by the inhabitants of Upper Silesia will not influence the Allies' decisions as regards allotting the disputed territories. Latest reports indicate that the insurgent movement has reached its zenith, and there are now signs of abatement, but Korfantry asserts that he will never give up an inch of newlyacqiured territory.