The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-03
SILESIA'S HOPE is IN
ALLIED OCCUPATION
Germans Try to Impress New
Commission With Charges
Against Poles.
SPIRIT OF TERROR ABROAD
Workmen Want Entente to
Send Troops-Now Labor
Under Threats.
~ CHRISTOPHER LUMBY.
Special Gable Despatch to THE sur from the
London Ttn,ee Service.


Special Gable Despatch to THE Sun from the
London Ttmes Service.
Copyright, 1913, oil rtoMs reserved.
SosNow1cE, Sept (delayed) The
Germans are taking no chances. When
returned yesterday evening through
Myslowltz there were still machine gun
pits in the centre streets and market
places. In Kattowitz and other big
towns things were quite normal. but
elsewhere, particularly in the country
district to the south, armed forces were
much In evidence. In the forest about
Emmanuelsegen there were posts on
every road. No one was allowed to
leave the village. According to the SOL
diers the forest is still full of Polish
robbers"
There had been fighting within the
last forty-elght hours with insurgents
along the border. However, 1t is my inn
preston that there will be no fresh out
bursts. The long expected commission
eventually has arrived. The people OF
Upper Silesia have almost lost faith In
commissions. They have seen quite a
number. There have been commissions
which told them what they most wanted
were food, boots and clothes and that
they should have them soon. Others
| told them they must work harder and
produce more coal.
There was only one which spoke OF
the subject nearest their hearts. namely.
the chances Of their becoming Polish citi-
| zens. This was a. bogus commission
dressed up in American uniforms. which
appeared In Upper Silesia last June and
| told the Poles that American assistance
| and food depended upon Upper Silesia
Remaining German, as Poland had enough
| food and was expected to shift for her
| self.
Hope in New Commission.
1t is evident. however. they have
| again set their hopes on the new COM
mission. Khaki uniforms caused US to
| be mistaken everywhere as members.
and at every colliery and village we
stopped crowds Immediately gathered
/ around with evidence they wished TO
/ bring before us Here very valuable
| services in relieving the situation I'M
doubtedly has been rendered by Col.
| Goodyear of the coal commission. II
was he who obtained from Berlin the
order stopping executions. He has been
| working unremittinsiy in an endeavor
, TO get normal conditions restored. This
stopping OF promiscuous executions with
| out trial was announced in a headline
of the German press as Removal of the
unrestricted state of SIEGE" and In Its
comment an endeavor was made to sug-
gest the insurgents are being let OF
| very lightly.
The Germans have begun a campaign
with the Entente commission by accu-
sations against the Poles in the pres.
and In speeches of their representatives
These accusations are made with a fine
sense Of injured innocence. Their mair
charges are. first, that the revolution
was carefully prepared a long time be-
forehand by the Poles; second, that thu
Polish regular troops took part in ths
lighting: third. that the insurgents arr
guilty of most appalling atrocities to-
| ward German troops and civilians.
The first accusation is hard for the
Poles. chiefly in view of the existenct
OF the Polska organizacia, the Woats
kowa or Polish military organiza ton
This secret organization is on the mode
of that which Gen. Pilsudsh founded
In Russian Poland before the war with
the object of providing Poland witt
an army when the time came for hel
to fight for freedom.