The sun., 1919-08-27

with their hands above their heads and
cry "IIoc lebe eerh Grenzachutz" Qons
live the border soldier).
II the head of family wasn't found
In his house by the German troops IN
their search the fact that he was Pole
was sufficient to insure the arrest, IL no
worse, Of the family.
Jerzykiewicz, a chemist of Janow, was
attending the congress OF chemists in
Warsaw when the insurrection broke out.
After the insurgents retired from Janow
the German troops visited his house and
seized his wife and sister-in-law and
asked where Jerzykiewics was. They
truthfully replied they did not know,
Thereupon they were marched out into
the yard. hands above their heads. and
placed against the wall ostensibly to be
shot. At the same time the shop was
wrecked with hand grenades. At this
point Col. Goodyear OF the Allied Coal
Commission arrived and saved them
further maltreatment. Our authority for
this, story is Jerzykiewlczs sister-in-law.
Brutal Murders.
A man named wojeiich, in the same
village, was arrested by soldiers. He
had a. slight bullet wound in his arm
This was taken as proof that he had
been lighting and n hand grenade was
tied around his throat and the pin pulled
out At Myslowitz on August 81 a man
named Nowak, his wife and two daugh-
ters were executed in front Of their
families as an example of the fate
which awaited persons who did not con
ceal their Polish sympathies. Pau
Gracz, also at Myslowitz, was shot the
same day because he said it was a pity
the Instruction had failed. A Cir
named Maciejeska, likewise at Myslo-
witz was called OFT of her house, made
to wave German flag and while wavinl
1t she was shot through the hands.
A man named Wilhelm SednarcZyi
was beaten SO brutally he died. Franz
Zajonz was tied to a horse, horribly
beaten and made to cry "Hoch Deutsch'
land. hoch Reichwehnv' Fellz Tran
baczowski. an old man. was beater
through the streets. These three cases
are from the Beuthen district
Forty insurgents were shot by the
Germans at Grossdombrowka and forty
Poles shot at Friedenshutte. Although
It has been officially denied by the Ger
mans, II is common talk in Kattowit7
that $50 persons were shot In prison
there. These mass executions no doubt
have been carried, out in pursuance OF
State Commissary Hoersing's proclama.
caught with arms should be shot with.
out trial. Nevertheless we have credita.
BILE evidence of numerous cases where
unarmed persons have been shot imme.
diately after arrest. Frequently they
were strung up by the hands for execu
ton.
For weeks before the strike broke on,
Polish workmen and miners in Upper
silesia had been threatened that al
those thrown out of employment by the
lockout which the employers had applied
in a number of mines and foundrie'
were to be deported to France. This
plan of the German Government doubt
less had double object in view.
Firstly. a fulfilling the undertaking tC
the Allies to provide labor for the re-
construction of devastated districts Of
France and Belgium. and. secondly, re.
moving a large portion of the purely
Polish population from the district be-
fore a plebiscite took place.
Many Are Deported.
On August 10. the day after the strike
broke out. this threat was put into eff
feet. Three days later when all resist
ance In the mining centres had beer
finally crushed, the deportations were
continued on larger scale. They wer,
particularly rigorous in the neighbor.
hood of Beuthen and Wyslowitz. II
most cases the able bodied male popula
ton which had taken part in the insur.
rection had escaped or was in hiding
And in such cases their wives and fam
lilies were deported wholesale. The com
plete population of two mining village,
near Kattowitz was carried OF
Our conclusions are not based merely
on the incidents as related. Far more
convincing to us than reports was the
manifestation which we witnessed al
Grodziec near BondZid on August 23
At the invitation OF Mime. Marie Ciecha.
nowskis. mother OF Antony Ciechanows
kis, counsellor of the Polish Legation In
London. we visited the refugee centre
which NJ. Ciechanowskis had established
on the edge of her husbands estate al
Grodziec to receive the refugees nov