The New York herald., 1921-06-20
GERMANS HESITATE
ON LEAVING SILESIA
Assert Preliminary With
drawals of Poles Involve
Valueless Land.
AGREEMENT Is NEAR
Progressive Retirement of
Insurgents to Parallel
Lines Is Planned.
MINES ARE UNSCATHED
Threats to Destroy Property
as Troops March Out Prove
Groundless.
MINES ARE UNSCATHED

Special Cable to THE New YORK HERALD.
Copyright. 1921, by THE New YORK HERALD
OPPELN, June 19.-Negotiations by
the Allies with the Polish insurgents
ard Germans for clearing Upper
Slesia are nearing completion. The
Germans still hesitate about leaving
the Annaberg hill. declaring that the
preliminary Withdrawals of the Poles
involve only valueless territory. The
actual German garrison at Annaberg,
however, consists of only half a dozen
men, and the hill is now without mill
tary significance.
The general scheme as practically
approved by all parties involves the
insurgents 20 five successive parallel
lines behind Rosenberg, Gross Strehlitz
and back behind Gleiwitz. AS this
line would still leave the bulk of the
industrial triangle in the hands of the
insurgents, it is declared by Germans
that it is the scheme favored by Gen.
Lerond, French representative and
head of the Interallied Commission,
and Adalbert Korfanty, insurgent
leader.
A final measure which would free
Upper Silesia entirely of insurgents Is
now under discussion here. 1t is un-
derstood the British complain of OBJ
structive practices and dilatory tactics.
A decision which Gen. Lerond and kor-
fanty would trecognize and approve
would be one where the Allies would
recognize the Polish Army as an
armed police force replacing the
existing volunteer bands. The latter
would put their guns away and return
to work and Korfanty himself might
retire from the limelight awaiting an
ultimate decision of the Supreme Coun-
Gill;
Should any decision deprive the Poles
of the industrial triangle. prominent
nsurgent declared to THE NEW York
HERALD correspondent to-day. another
uprising more violent than this would
follow.
Despite repeated threats, TO date no
mines have been damaged, and except
ing one near Lepine, no factories have
| been destroyed. The Polish insurgents
are withdrawing in relatively orderly
| fashion. leaving property untouched and
only destroying such bridges where
counter attacks by German volunteers
| are feared
! Korfanty also has preferred attempt
! ing n levy of 10 per cent. on wages in
| the form of taxes in Upper Silesia to the
reuuisitioning of German bank deposits
as he at first threatened. AS measure
against unruly workmen in the insurgent
ranks, Korfanty is disarming these men
and replacing them with middle aged
Poles. who are recruited from the classes
of 1892 to 1901. Korfanty. with the ap-
proval Of the French. demands recogni-
ltion of this. action by the Allies.
The natives of Upper Silesia with the
Polish insurgents are restless after their
| long military service and are complain
! ing of the presence of Warsaw and
| Posen Poles in their ranks, who seek
| only quarters and food. The native
| Germans where the German volunteers
are quartered complain of petty plunder-
| ing by their own countrymen.
! The British officers are impatient over
the delay in reaching settlement
| Eighteen British officers have resigned
since the beginning of the insurrection
and now Col. Cockrill, from Beuthen
and the British Major from Tarnowita
have left the region.