GERMAN SAVAGERY.
REIGN OF BLACKGUARDISM, SCENES IN UPPER SILESIA. By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Received July 10, 9.50 a.m. LONDON, July*B. Remarkable evidence of German savagery in Upper Silesia is contained in a despatch from a correspondent at Oppeln. Three young girls, play-things of a mob in Beufhen, were stripped stark naked and forced to mount pillar-boxes and remain there for an hour as targets for filth and rubbish. Then their hair was cut off and they wore branded on the face with the letters I and K, inter-Albert© Kommission) and hunted through the streets. The disgusting spectacle was witnessed by 5000, who with the police took no action. Hundreds of women took to flight. A later despatch describes the reign of blackguardism following the taking over of Oppeln by the German Schultz-Polizei. The correspondent, saw three women stripped and rushed along by a jeering mob. Another mob stormed an hotel, dragged out, stripped and beat a girl in the presence of the British and inter-Allied officers, who were powerless, because (Itey were instructed on no account to provoke a conflict with the population. The Polish Consul-General has asked the Allied troops to take prompt measures to maintain order.—Times.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 445, 10 July 1922, Page 5
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