Arizona republican., 1921-01-24
UPPER SILESIA
 AWAITS ANSWER
 IF AMBASSADORS |ON PLEBISCIT [
Germans and Poles Seek Control of Upper Silesia
 While Thousands of Job
 less Suffer From Hunger
LRepubIican A. p. Leased Wirel

BEUTHEN, Upper Silesia, Jan. 23.- German industralists, Polish propa- | gandists and men and women who work in the mines of Upper Silesia | express virtually unanimous hope | that the council of ambassadors will fix the earliest possible date for the plebiscite which, they believe will be the first step toward stabilization of the unsettled conditions terrorizing and pauperizing much of the popula- tion-
 Germans, who are conducting campaign to swing the region east of the Oder to their side, declare a fur ther postponement of the elections to decide whether Poland or Germany will control, will only add to the excite ment and to the hatred between the Poles and the Germans.
 The Poles, apparently more confident of victory, assert that they always stood for an early plebiscite. Both sides say that the population is equipped with arms and that fighting can hardly be avoided.
 w. Korfanty, Polish leader, whom the Germans charge with instigating the organized terror last year. has declared Poland is so confident of winning that he has arranged to as- sume control of every administrative post the moment the decision is an- nounced.
 The ruthless campaign has lost its economic aspects, in spite of the great wealth of Upper Silesia, and has be- come a question of nationality, ac- lcording to Herr Korfanty who added:
 Upper Silesia has never really been a part of Germany, and the Germans developed it 800 years only as q Icolony. This campaign is against the middle age system by which the land lbarons have been able to hold a ma Ijority of the working people in iftera
 slavery.
 This working population is over
 whelmingly Polish.
 Streets Crowded With Poor
 Krfanty is housed in large hote
 which he purchased. The street was lthronged with silent crowds of men
 women and children. many bare foo
 and thinly clad, although storm O snow and sleet was raging, when th'
 correspondent called. The stairway'
 also were thronged with those waitins to see him. There were numerous
 guards in plain clothes.
 The Pole. who is rather short anC yellow haired. during the conversation was informed:
 "The Germans say you have an arm.
 of 30 900 in Poland; that you have owe ] 10000, 900 marks in contributions; th2 8 you are responsible for the terror; tha ' you are the chief cause of the sprea' g of bolshevism in the mining centers that you have planned massacre o I German residents in the event of Q Polish victory and that the F'rencl
 government is giving you financia 2 support"
 Korfanty smiled and said: a 'The Poles and Germans are armed That is a natura sequence of tn
 Ievents of August. I a mnot trainin
 troops. We have sufficient none. ,, but the French do not give liberall! II you know. The crime wave seems
 me to be more the result of the wa - than local conditions, and you have 'f everywhere. Feeling is intense an 1T there probably will be trouble, bl a criminals have no nationality" n He said that he expected Poland K financial situation to improve shortl n He exhibited apparent fair of the cor is tinued spread of communism. but be
 lieved that Poland could control u F situation in Upper Silesia and at u o same time form a natural barrie is against the spread of bolshevism."