SUPREME COUNCIL.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXI, 10 August 1921, Page 5

SUPREME COUNCIL.

REINFORCEMENTS POSTPONED.

Press Assn.—By Tel. —Copyright.

LONDON August 8

When the Council assembled on Monday M. Briand consented to postpone the question of reinforcements, dealing with the political issue first. ' The real crux thus became iwhether Britain on the one hand is prepared to admit the principle that the industrial triangle in Upper Silesia should be divided, and whether France on thd other hand is prepared to modify her proposed frontier line, making it just for the whole of Germany. «

The British unalterable view is that the alignment of the new Polish-German frontier must leave Germany reasonably contented. EXPERTS’ VIEWS. After the postponement of the reinforcements question, legal experts were requested to present their viewpoints. The French expert has formulated a scheme which gives the industrial areas to Poland, reversing the plebiscite to th© extent of giving seven-elevenths of the population which voted for Germany to Poland.

Sir Cecil Hurst '(Legal Adviser to the Foreign Office) explained the British proposals. Firstly, the communes must be allotted according to the country for which they voted; secondly, the isolation of communes must be avoided; thirdly, the communes, economically or geographically inseparable, must not be divided. He pointed out that the population concerned totalled 2,000,000, in 1522 communes, 678 of which voted for Poland find 844 for Germany—chirteenthirtieths for Poland and seventeenthirt.eths for Germany.