SILESIAN TROUBLE

Otago Witness, Issue 3509, 14 June 1921, Page 14

SILESIAN TROUBLE

THE OCCUPIED AREA. LONDON, June 3. Germany has assured Great Britain that she will order General llofer. commanding the self-defence troops in Upper Silesia, to obey the Allied Commission, and to withdraw from the territory taken from the Polish insurgents. It is exp cte.l that this wiil relieve the strained situation. An Angle-French exchange of Notes resulted in an indefinite postponement of tlie Boulogne Conference on the Upper Silesian problems. Great Britain endorses the French theory that the first necessity is to restore order, and will await the report of experts before taking the next st-.p. A curious development occurred in Paris, tlie German Ambassador pr* testing against the withdrawal of the Allied troops from German villages in Upper Si!-via. wln-reas he previously complained of harsh treatment. Tlie Tiiiie.s correspondent at Oppeln states that Piers has been evacuated in a ei.rdaine with the British demand, and British troops have occupied it. POLES’ HEAVY LOSSES. LONDON. June 8. Tlie insurgents suffered heavy losses in five counter-attacks at Kandrxem. Tho Germans took 1700 prisoners. A terrible scene was enacted in the town. Ten Polish prisoners were massacred by the infuriated Bavarians following on the discovery that three Bavarian students had been crucified in a neighbouring forest. The retiring Polish troops de. troyed bridges and looted and burned a tillage. Fighting is proceeding at Bir.xwa.