Evening star., 1921-05-14
Declares France Will Never
Consent to Teuton Military
Move Against Poles.
TAKES ISSUE WITH IDEA
PROPOSED BY ENGLAND
Revolt Reported to Have Collapsed.
Failure of British to Send
Troops Scored.
BY the Associated Press.

PARIS May 1.-THE entry Of Ger
man troops into Upper Silesia would
provoke Intervention by regular
Polish troops, which would mean war,
and in such war France could not
remain neutral. according to express
sions in official circles here today
The utmost amazement was express
ed in these circles at the speech of
Mr. Lloyd George. the British prime
minister, on the Upper Silesian situa-
ton. containing what is regarded here
as extraordinarily friendly references
TO Germany and judgments hostile to-
ward Poland and unsympathetic to-
ward France.
Premier BRAND himself took the un-
usual course of receiving all the for
eien newspaper correspondents in
group this afternoon to recount TO
them what the French government
had done and intended to do.
France is unalterably opposed TO
any German military operations in
Upper Sile sia. declared Premier Bri-
and.
Never never could the French
government consent to German troops
entering Upper Silesia!" the premier
exclaimed to half hundred foreign
CORE spondents whom he received at
the foreign office in consequence Of
Premier LioNu speech yes
terday in the British house of COM
mons.
Says Poles Are Maitreated.
German bands are operating in Up
per Silesia maltreating and arresting
Poles" continued NJ. BRAND. Not all
the disorders in that province are pro-
duced by the Poles. The French gov
ernment could not permit German
military forces to intervene in such a
situation.
Il protest with all my energy
against the false Impressions being
spread throughout the world. The
French government has fulfilled TO
! the utmost OF its power its duty in
Upper Silesia- We have 1900 troops
there who have had to deal with lo0.-
! 600 insurgents and rising of several
! hundred thousand persons.
The French troops could do no
more than hold the cities. the towns
and the strategic points.
! IF the British government would
! send $4,000 troops. there to help us the
disorders could be put down more
quickly.
Going Back to Homes.
The news received by the foreign
office from Upper SiIesia today is that
the insurgents are going to their
homes and returning to work
The French governments solution
is that the allies should in the first
place assume a calm attitude and in
, struct their commissioners in Upper
! Silesia to try to reach a unanimous
agreement"
Such an agreement. said BRAND,
would not be difficult il all con-
siderations except the result of the
plebiScite were excluded The French
governments only instructions to its
commissioner" he said. were to de-
termine. according to the majority of
the ballots in the various communes,
which should go to Poland and which
to Germany
In Favor Of Penalties.
In statement today the semi-of-
fetal HavaS Agency says there is rea-
son to believe that the French gov
ernment has informed the British.
government that France is in favor
of maintaining the penalties against
Germany adopted after the London
conference in March, when the Ger
mans refused to accept the Paris
terms of the allies, including the
customs line on the Rhine and the
occupation of Dusseldorf. Duisburg
and Ruhrort.
The statement was brought out by
a report through Berlin that the
british government was favorable to
cancellation of the penalties in QueS-
ton.
Collapse Of Revolt Expected.
BERLIN. May 14.-Collapse of the
I olish revolt in Upper Silesia is
pected in authoritative quarters there.
according to special dispatch re-
Ceived here FROM Breslau. Important
conferences are now in progress. and
il is believed that Adalbert Korfanty,
leader of the Poles has lost his fight
to secure Upper SileSia for Poland.
The retirement of Prince Hatfield.
German member of the interallied COM
mission at Oppeln, has prompted Ber-
lin, n
ognition of his services in a difficult
environment. The immediate cause OF
his resignation from the commission is
believed TO have been his failure TO
make good the promise he gave the
German populace of Upper Silesia that
order would be restored within three
days after the insurrection began. The
inability on the part Of the allied forces
men made untsnable the position of
Prince Hatfield. and it is stated he
realized his services We're useless under
existing conditions. Prince Hatfield is
given credit for having forced the con-
cession which permitted native SilesianS
and eligibles from outside the plebiscite
area to vote on the same day.
Treaty Violated. Says Premier.
LONDON, May 13.-Great Britain Will
not accept as a fact accomplished the
seizure and holding by insurgent Poles
under the leadership Of Adalbert Kor-
fanty of portions of Upper Silesia.
This was made plain in the house of
commons by Premier Lloyd George.
who emphatically declared the inva-
sion was in defiance of the treaty of
Versailles. Either the allies should in
sist on the treaty being respected, the
premier said, or they ought to allow
Germany 10 do so.
Not merely to disarm Germany, but
to say that such troops she has
are not to be permitted to take part in
restoring order-that is not fair" he
added.
1t would be discreditable and not
of the honor of any land, and,
he asserted, II am perfectly certain
that it will not be the attitude the
allies will take"
Poland. he said, was the last coun-
try in Europe which should complain
about the treaty. She did not win her
liberty. 1t was given her by Italy.
Great Britain and France. There was
not a letter in the treaty that did not
British. French and Italian
lives. He charged that the Poles dur
ing the war had been divided-half
of them fighting with the Germans.
They fell in German uniforms" the
premier dramatically exclaimed. "and
shot down Frenchmen. British and
Italians who were fighting for their
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