Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-05-23
BY Cyril Brown.
Copyright, 1919, by the Press Pub
fishing Co.
VThe New YORK WOrIdD
Especial Gable DespatCh.) J

especial Gable DespatCh.l
Berlin May 22.-The most omuous
feature of the general situation is the
fighting temper of the German popu-
lation in the eastern provinces
Reports indicate that the Germans
are preparing to resist with armed
force the Polish occupation of their
eastern territories under the ultimate
peace treaty, with or without the ad-
vice and consent of the government,
particularly in West Prussia and ST.
lesia.
All conditions apparently are fast
r.pening for lively civil war-guer.
lila warfare, with the possibility Of
regular hostilities between Polish ana
German troops not excluded.
The call to arms already has been
sounded in West Prussia and is to
certain to resound throughout the
eastern provinces, and the clamor tor
arms will be so insistent the govern
ment cannot deny them if it would.
Cali to Arms by Below.
There is no bluff about the procla-
nation issued by Otto Won Below,
commanding general of the 18th corps
in Danzig, for volunteers to enlist IN
eastern border defense.
Cen Below also calls for enlist
ment of reserves. He says:
THE hour of fate has struck for
cur nation and our homes. Let the
province take heed that the great
hour does not find a generation Of
weakllngs.'
Unlike the apathy of Berlin, a now
wave of nationalism appears running
at its highest in the threatened east
ern provinces, and reports increasing
" emphasize that patriotic demonstra-
tionS are singing Deutschland ueber
Allies"
In Siesia Germans announce the
intention of helping themselves if
the government leaves them in the
lurch. Polish demonstration in the
storm center Of Oppelin, in Upper ST.
lcsa was forbidden by the German au-
thorities. Other reports hint at
clashes between the Polish and Ger
man demonstrators. German War
Minister Noskc recently told corre-
spondents that the eastern provinces
were a powder barrel" Racial feel
ings are running 50 high that the
most trivial incident may cause a
blow-up.
Shock Troops In Silcsia.
In Silesia observers note beginnings
Of a war of liberation movement rem
iniscent of the great popular upris-
ing against the French under the Ma
poleonic regime. A curious feature
of the liberation movement is that It
is being organized and launched be-
fore there is anything TO liberate and
anticipating the fate of Upper Silesia
Reserves of German volunteer shock
troops Of guaranteed reliability al
ready have been sent into Upper 81
lesia At the Fortress of Thorn, the
reserves of border defense have been
modified.
All Germany is specializing what
will happen if GERMANY refuses to
sign the peace treaty. The consensus
of German opinion is that the block
adc will be Immediately clamped
down again, and that the allied armies
will march into Germany and en-
counter no resistance, going as far as
thev like without bloodshed.
No sane German believes that even
show Of armed onDositiou will be
made in Germany. That belief is al
ready discounted Nevertheless this
ia ct has not served to COW the gov
ernment in its defiant attitude toward
the reace treaty in its present form.
The Tageblatt interprets the report
that Marshal Foch is visiting the
Rhine region as propaganda to CO.
cree German nublic nDinion, but says.
Not Al BInsf
"SuCh reports are not necessarily 4
bluff. We must calculate on the nos
sibiItv of a French advance. That
the Americans will take a great part