DISORDERS IN SILESIA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17274, 25 September 1919, Page 7

DISORDERS IN SILESIA.

GERMANY'S VERSION.

POLES THE AGGRESSORS. I PROPAGANDA FROM POSEN. . By Telegraph-Press Association—Copyrieht. (Receivod 1 a.m.) . A. and N.Z. LONDON. Sept. 23. The Berlin correspondent of the > | Daily Chronicle had an interview | | with Otto Horsing, the virtual di.c- ---: ! tator of Upper Silesia, who stated • I that the disorders in Upper Silesia ' j were at first frankly Spartacist in i character, but later became anti- . j German. The Polish leader, Czarpla, I conducting propaganda from Posen, : J endeavoured to foment strikes. Arms l were poured across the frontier, and j j the disorders culminated in the Poles attacking Tichan and overI powering the German troops. They seized a battery of guns and killed I 13 men, who were garrisoning the I neighbouring military posts. Polish I bands poured into German territory ' and occupied several villages. I j Finally a serious outbreak at [ J Glciwitz necessitated martial law. j i " The bitterest fighting I have seen,'' j said Horning, "followed. All sorts' I of weapons, except heavy guns, were ' i used against the Government. Men j were taken by pressgangs from ' their homes. Thousands of people fled across the frontier." The refugees, said Horsing, were now returning, and production at the ; mines was increasing in the absence jof agitators. Horsing denied the J stories of German cruelties. I