UPPER SILESIA

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 10 August 1921, Page 8

UPPER SILESIA

THE FRONTIER QUESTION

■ DISCUSSION BY ALLIES.

I_BV. CABLE— PBESS ASBOrT ATION—COPYBIGHT

LONDON, Aug. 9.

y-lflie Daily Chronicle's Paris corresjpmdent says an informal dinner talk «■ Sunday enabled Mr. Lloyd George ItindM- Briand tb create an easier. atmo_ pqahere. - When the Supreme Council jUßMmbled on Monday M. Briand conJ__Bnted to postpone the question of reinSoroements, dealiag with the political Jbme first. f\ Tlie real crux thus became whether Sntam, on the one side, is prepared jh> admit the principle that the indus_ri»] triangle in Uppar Silesia..is- to. be and whether France, on the trther hand is prepared to ihodiFy her frontier line, making it iust _Eor the whole of Germany. The British •■alterable view is.that-the alignment «f the new Polish-German frontier must leave Germany reasonably contented. '._• After the postponement of the rein--fcreements question the : legal experts; "vera requested to present their viewpoint... The French expert formulated y* scheme which gives the' industrial y«reas to Poland, reversing the result -^JJie plebiscite to the extent of giving ■ .wren-elevenths of the population which 7voted for Germany to Poland. Mr. Cecil Hurst explained that the Bpitish .proposals were: Firstly, that the'comxwumes he allotted according to the coun_tiy for which they voted j secondly, that -^•Wations of the communes v must be «ro_de_; and. tWrdly, the communes ♦oonomically or geographically inseparmVW must not be divided He pointed '•"t that the population concerned ;|»Ulted 2,000,000 in 1522 communes, ;yow which voted for Poland and 844 ['-** Germany, making thirteen-thirtieths *«r Poland and seventeen-thirtieth s for "Germany.