SILESIAN SITUATION.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16433, 23 May 1921, Page 7

SILESIAN SITUATION.

ANCLQ-FRENCH CO-OPERA-TION. DESIRED BY FRANCE. ie^rssph— Aa.-.cr-iation— Copy right Australian aud N.Z. Cable Association. (■Received May 23. I!.30 a.m.) LOS DON, May 22. France yesterday presented a new -Note> to Britain, pointing out that the danger of the situation in Upper Si!r;i was becoming more serious in view which were being constantly rein forced, the state of mind, of the workmen, who may turn Bolshevist, and the difficulties intervening between Use executive of the Polish movement and the Gor-Fianc-o therefore proposes that liri tarn and France should jointly urge the German Government to execute the measures it announced, and in that lou.uction invite Lord O’A hem on. British Ambassador at Beiim, to Siidport, the steps taken !n ill.-, Kr< : i, bassador at Berlin. POLISH MINISTERS RESIGN. (Received May 23, 11.30 a.m.) CCPCNII A(iEk. May 22. n is reported iron: Warsaw 1 that Count Sapjcha and several other mem-1-cLs or thel t rbuift him- i-osiijm.d • ,v----IHK to the JS.SI tionalist and Labnn- J«- p faes favourio support of the Sih \nsurgeuts. BRITAIN APPREHENSIVE, FEARS KILLING OF ENTENTE. tsi ted Se i < Cos ' * (Received Slav 33, 12.10 p.m.) LONDON, May 22.

There is lively anxiety in London lest tho french policy of insisting on u strong Poland wilt hill the Entente. British leaders understand that with a hip; forceful Poland, will take Russia’s place in an Alliance enclosing Germany, hut. insist that the signatories to die Versailles Treaty must uphold the treaty. Britain is frankly fearful that Bi!esia will become another Alsace-Lorraine. Prance denies breaking the Treaty, and says she is ctfdy scouring Poland 4 ** right.' Phillip Aleleil, a leading interpreter ol French opinion, writing in the British Press, warns England that a genuinely profound ware of indignation against England is sweeping orer France. He declares that the crisis is grave and tense. Mr J. L. Garvin, writing in the " Observer,” assures Air Lloyd George of the solid support of public opinion. Ho points out that Silesia, integrally, belongs to the German historical, geographical and economic systems. The Voles already have annexed millions of Rutheniuns, Lithuanians and Russians, and for them to have Silesia, just because so in e Poles are •"(here, would mean racialism gone mad.